Bourdon
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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
- 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
- The Bourdon gauge or Bourdon tube is named after the Eugène Bourdon below. See Pressure measurement#Bourdon
Bourdon is also a surname and may refer to:
- Sébastien Bourdon (1616 – 1671), French painter
- Amé Bourdon (1636 or 1638 – 1706), French physician and anatomist
- François Louis Bourdon (1758 – June 22, 1797), revolutionary French politician
- Eugène Bourdon (1808 – 1884), French watchmaker and engineer
- Rosario Bourdon (1885 – 1961), Québécois musician
- Luc Bourdon (1987 – 2008), Canadian hockey player not to be confused with filmmaker of same name
- William Bourdon (b. 1956), French lawyer, secretary-general of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues from 1995-2000, and founder of Sherpa (association)
- Rob Bourdon, the drummer of Linkin Park
[edit] See also
Similar names are:
- Boudon
- Boudon noir, an alternative name for the Italian wine grape Dolcetto
- Boudin (disambiguation)
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