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Musette

A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.

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Bagpipe 76% connected

A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.

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A unknown · 78% connection

The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the sca…

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Alyssum noun · 78% connection

A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet-scented f…

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Appoggiatura noun · 78% connection

A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree a…

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Bagpiper noun · 78% connection

One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper.

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Bittersweet adjective · 78% connection

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

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Bourdon noun · 78% connection

A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.)

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Break verb · 78% connection

To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, bu…

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Burden noun · 78% connection

The drone of a bagpipe.

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Canting adjective · 78% connection

Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting t…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, bagpipe, formerly, soft, sweet.
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Chanter noun · 78% connection

The flute or finger pipe in a bagpipe. See Bagpipe.

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Chaunter noun · 78% connection

The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.

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Cornemuse noun · 78% connection

A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe.

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D unknown · 78% connection

The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A…

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Doodlesack noun · 78% connection

The Scotch bagpipe.

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Drone verb · 78% connection

That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containin…

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Dronepipe noun · 78% connection

One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.

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Gangrene noun · 78% connection

A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality;…

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Keynote noun · 78% connection

The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modul…

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