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Noun Concept
Categories: Musical techniques, Indian musical instruments, Carnatic music instruments, Accompaniment
EN
drone  drone pipe  bourdon  bordun  burdon
EN
A pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone WordNet 3.0
English:
sound
organ stop
music
organ pipe
Definitions
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A pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Bourdon, bordun, or bordone normally denotes a stopped flute type of flue pipe in an organ characterized by a dark tone, strong in fundamental, with a quint transient but relatively little overtone development. Wikipedia
In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece. Wikipedia
A stopped organ pipe of a construction favored for low pitches Wikipedia Disambiguation
A continuous note or chord in a piece of music Wikipedia Disambiguation
Stopped flute/flue type of pipe in an organ Wikidata
The lowest-pitched stop of an organ. Wiktionary
One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe. Wiktionary
IS A
pipe
accompaniment
organ stop
PART OF
bagpipe
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
DIFFERENT FROM
drone
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
drone, drone pipe, bourdon
Wikipedia
EN
bourdon (organ pipe), drone (sound)
Wikidata
EN
bourdon, drone
Wiktionary
EN
bourdon, drone
Wikipedia Redirections
EN
bourdon (music), Bourdon (organ stop), burdon (music), Drone (music), drone string, Soubasse, Untersatz
Wikidata Alias
EN
bordun

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