Cornemuse du centre: France musical instrument

The cornemuse du centre France is a kind of bagpipe that is found in the Central France. The musical instrument has two drones, one an octave below the tonic of the chanter and the other two octaves below the tonic of the chanter.

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The drones of the musical instrument are made up of two pieces of wood that telescope into one another to tune the musical instrument. The drones of the instrument have single reeds. The chanter of the musical instrument is equipped with a double reed of plastic or reed.

The cornemuse du centre is a chromatic musical instrument, on the most modern versions of the musical instrument; al semitones of the scale can be performed. The musical instrument is commonly not tuned to an equal temperament, to permit in harmony with the drones of the instrument. Also, because of the presence of the drones on the instrument which cannot be tuned to another pitch, only a subset of the keys that technically would be feasible are often performed, i.e. the drone of the instrument is either the tonic of the key or the dominant of the key. Used embellishments do not function, also not all if the music is transposed to another key. As most semitones can be perform, music in various modes of a key can be and are traditionally performed, which may not be possible on a strict diatonic musical instrument.

The fingering of the chanter is often semi-closed for high pitched musical instrument, meaning that the fingers of the lower hand are always placed on their holes when removing the fingers of the upper hand. Chanters that are about 20 inches or higher are commonly performed with open fingering.