Sundance Head - At Last (The Voice Performance)

BURDON, bordun (French bourdon, lit. - thick bass; late Lat. Bordunus, German Bordun, Italian bordone, English bourdon, burden). 1) The sound of open (not shortened when playing) strings of plucked and bowed instruments, bass strings of a wheel lyre and bass pipes of a bagpipes, an echo of a performer accompanying a play on open longitudinal flutes such as fluer, kurai, etc. B. usually is the lower voice of the muses. works (kind of organ item); sometimes (for example, when playing the bagpipe) B. form whole harmonies (two- and three-voice). 2) Located outside the neck, open (not shortened when playing) strings of plucked and bowed instruments, used to extract bourdon sounds. They were used in some ancient bowed (fidel, baritone) and in the bunk. instruments (pterygoid harp). 3) Org.register of the labial group of the flute family (see Organ). Metal pipes, cylindrical. forms closed from the upper end. In the disposition of the manuals - 16 ', 8', 4 ', 2', 1 '; as the register of the pedal keyboard - 16 '(SubbaЯ) and 32' (Untersatz). B.'s sonority is soft, deaf. See Gedackt. K.A. Vertkov and L.I. Roizman.