# Bourdon

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**Bourdon** derives from the French for [bumblebee](/source/Bumblebee), and may refer to:

- [Bourdon (bell)](/source/Bourdon_(bell)), the lowest bell in a set
- [Bourdon](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bourdon), a [Pilgrim's staff](/source/Pilgrim's_staff)
- [Bourdon (organ pipe)](/source/Bourdon_(organ_pipe)), a stopped organ pipe of a construction favored for low pitches
- [Bourdon (surname)](/source/Bourdon_(surname))
- [Drone (music)](/source/Drone_(music)): The lowest course of a [lute](/source/Lute), or the lowest drone pipe of a bagpipe, sometimes called a bourdon
- Faux bourdon, [fauxbourdon](/source/Fauxbourdon), [faburden](/source/Faburden) or [falsobordone](/source/Falsobordone), terms applied (without perfect consistency) to a variety of music compositional techniques
- [Bourdon, Somme](/source/Bourdon,_Somme), a small town in France
- [Bourdon (grape)](/source/Bourdon_(grape)), another name for the French wine grape Douce noir

## See also

- [Bourdon gauge](/source/Bourdon_gauge) or Bourdon tube, named after [Eugène Bourdon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Bourdon)
- [Boudon](/source/Boudon) - Boudon noir, an alternative name for the Italian wine grape [Dolcetto](/source/Dolcetto)
- [Boudin (disambiguation)](/source/Boudin_(disambiguation))
- [Burden (disambiguation)](/source/Burden_(disambiguation))

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