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Loure

The loure is a type of bagpipe native to Normandy, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries but later extinct prior to its modern revival. • Illustration — Loure, collégiale Saint-Évroult de Mortain, 15 e s. There was also a larger version known as the haute loure.

Loure

Loure player or norman bagpiper (see. Sculpture from the Collegial church of Mortain (Normandy), from the end of the Middle Age.

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