page_title: List of bagpipes
section_title: France
hierarchical_section_title: List of bagpipes / Western Europe / France
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Cornemuse des landes, connue sous le nom gascon de "boha". Instrument de facture récente (2003). Photo&#160;: Baudoin Thomas
context_page_description: Uilleann pipes: Also known as Union pipes and Irish pipes, depending on era. Bellows-blown bagpipe with keyed or un-keyed 2-octave chanter, 3 drones and 3 regulators. The most common type of bagpipes in Irish traditional music.
  Great Irish Warpipes: Carried by most Irish regiments of the British Army until the late 1960s, when the Great Highland Bagpipe became standard. The Warpipe differed from the latter only in having a single tenor drone.
  Brian Boru bagpipes: Carried by the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and had three drones, one of which was a baritone, pitched between bass and tenor. Unlike the chanter of the Great Highland Bagpipe, its chanter is keyed, allowing for a greater tonal range.
  Pastoral pipes: Although the exact origin of this keyed, or un-keyed chanter and keyed drones, pipe is uncertain, it developed into the modern uilleann bagpipe.
context_section_description: Musette de cour: A French open ended smallpipe, believed by some to be an ancestor of the Northumbrian smallpipes,  used for classical compositions in 'folk' style in the 18th Century French court. The shuttle design for the drones was recently revived and added to a mouth blown Scottish smallpipe called shuttle pipes.
  Biniou (or biniou kozh "old style bagpipe"): a mouth blown bagpipe from Brittany, a Celtic region of northwestern France. It is the most famous bagpipe of France. The great Highland bagpipe is also used in marching bands called bagadoù and known as biniou braz ("great bagpipe").
  Veuze, found in Western France around Nantes and into the Breton marshes.
  Cabrette: bellows-blown, played in the Auvergne region of central France.
  Chabrette (or chabretta): found in the Limousin region of central France.
  Bodega (or craba): found in Languedoc region of southern France, made of an entire goat skin.
  Boha: found in the regions of Gascony and Landes in southwestern France, notable for having no separate drone, but a drone and chanter bored into a single piece of wood.
  Musette bressane: found in the Bresse region of eastern France
  Cornemuse du Centre (or musette du Centre) (bagpipes of Central France) are of many different types, some mouth blown. They can be found in the Bourbonnais, Berry, Nivernais, and Morvan regions of France and in different tonalities.
  Chabrette poitevine: found in the Poitou region of west-central France, but now extremely rare.
  Caramusa: a small bagpipe with a single parallel drone, native to Corsica
  Musette bechonnet, named from its creator, Joseph Bechonnet (1820-1900 AD) of Effiat.
  Bousine, a small droneless bagpipe played in Normandy. (fr:Bousine)
  Loure, a Norman bagpipe which gives its name to the French Baroque dance loure.
  Pipasso, a bagpipe native to Picardy in northern France
  Sourdeline, an extinct bellows-blown pipe, likely of Italian origin
  Samponha, a double-chantered pipe played in the Pyrenees
  Vèze (or vessie, veuze à Poitiers), played in Poitou
caption: The boha of Gascony
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