Musette may refer to:
Music
* , a French baroque dance style; see
list of classical music genres
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Musette de cour
The musette de cour or baroque musette is a type of Baroque bagpipe. Visually, the musette is characterised by the short, cylindrical shuttle-drone and the two chalumeaux. Both the chanters and the drones have a cylindrical bore and use a dou ...
, or baroque musette, a musical instrument of the bagpipe family
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Musette bechonnet
The musette bechonnet is a type of bellows-blown French bagpipe which takes its name from its creator, Joseph Bechonnet (1820-1900 AD) of Effiat.''Auvergne''. Pierre-François Aleil, Pierre Bonnaud, Eric Bordessoule, Caroline Roux, Pierre Charbo ...
, a type of French bagpipe
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Musette bressane, a type of French bagpipe
* Oboe musette or
piccolo oboe
The piccolo oboe, also known as the piccoloboe or sopranino oboe and historically called an oboe musette (or just musette), is the smallest and highest pitched member of the oboe family. Pitched in E♭ or F above the regular oboe (i.e. notated a ...
, the smallest member of the oboe family
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Suona
The ''suona,'' also called ''dida,'' laba or ''haidi'', is a traditional double-reeded Chinese musical instrument. The ''suona's'' basic design originated in ancient Iran, then called " Sorna". It appeared in China around the 3rd century and ...
, a type of Chinese sorna (double-reeded horn)
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Bal-musette
Bal-musette is a style of French instrumental music and dance that first became popular in Paris in the 1880s. Although it began with bagpipes as the main instrument, this instrument was eventually replaced by the accordion, on which a variety of ...
, a style of French instrumental music and dance that first became popular in the 1880s
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Tablature#Musette tablature, a form of musical notation
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Accordion reed ranks and switches#Register switches, an accordion with at least two sets of middle reeds that are slightly detuned from each other
People
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Musette Brooks Gregory (1876–1921), African American suffragist and civil rights activist
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Musette Majendie (1903–1981), owner of Hedingham Castle
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Musette Satterfield Kitchin
Sue Musette Satterfield Kitchin (March 10, 1874 – November 4, 1956) was an American political hostess who, as the wife of Governor William Walton Kitchin, served as the first lady of North Carolina from 1909 to 1913. Kitchin was also the direc ...
, American political hostess
Other uses
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Musette (cycling), a small bag given to riders in a feed zone during a cycle race
* , the name of several ships
See also
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