The musette de cour or baroque musette is a musical instrument of the bagpipe family. 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 double reed, giving a quiet tone similar to the oboe.

What does the French word musette mean?

1 : a bellows-blown bagpipe popular in France in the 17th and 18th centuries. 2 : a small knapsack also : a similar bag with one shoulder strap.

What is the meaning of musette in music?

​MUSETTE, diminutive of the old French 'muse,' both meaning an instrument of the bagpipe family, consisting of two pipes or reeds and a drone, supplied with wind from a leathern reservoir. [