bodega

The tradition & historical record

Bodega or craba is an Occitan term for a type of French bagpipe played in Montagne Noire, particularly within the French departments of Tarn, Aude, Hérault, and Haute-Garonne. It is also the name given to outdoor bars or cellars with festive music during ferias. ¹

The bag is generally of goatskin (or sometimes sheepskin) in which are set wooden stocks to hold the pipes, generally of boxwood. The pipes include: ¹

blowpipe (bufet) through which air is blown into the bag chanter (graile) on which the melody is played, using a double-reed drone (bonda) which sounds a continuous harmonising note. The drone rests on the shoulder of the player, and uses a single reed ¹

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Bodega (bagpipe)”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. ¹

bodega is French bagpipe, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. ²

The source record links this tradition to 2 external registers, which can be verified through the citation. ²