Galoubet

Galoubet (Fr., Prov.) [OProv. galaubiar, to play superbly], Prov. pipe of the *pipe and tabor ensemble, made of wood, usually boxwood, with 2 front fingerholes and a rear thumbhole. The bore is cylindrical and very narrow, so that fundamentals are not used, although it is possible to sound them. The galoubet is pitched in d2, its lowest used tone (the second harmonic) is d3. As Thoinan Arbeau already pointed out in 1588, it overblows the 5th very easily, hence the fingerholes have to fill in…