Bourdon
Bourdon (Wiktionary entry) derives from the French for bumblebee, and may refer to:
- A Bourdon (bell), the lowest bell in a set
- A Bourdon (organ pipe), a stopped organ pipe of a construction favored for low pitches
- Bourdon (surname)
- Burden (music): The lowest course of a lute, or the lowest drone pipe of a bagpipe
- Faux bourdon, fauxbourdon, faburden or falsobordone, terms applied (without perfect consistency) to a variety of music compositional techniques
- Bourdon, Somme, a small town in France
- Bourdon (grape), another name for the French wine grape Douce noir
- A Bourdon gauge or Bourdon tube, named after Eugène Bourdon
See also
- Boudon
- Boudon noir, an alternative name for the Italian wine grape Dolcetto
- Boudin (disambiguation)
- Burden (disambiguation)
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