bourdon

bour·don  (brdn)

n.

1. The drone pipe of a bagpipe.

2. The bass string, as of a violin.

3. An organ stop, commonly of the 16-foot pipes, medium in scale but with dark timbre.

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[Middle English burdoun, bass, from Old French bourdon.]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

bourdon - a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone drone pipe, drone bagpipe - a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone pipe - a tubular wind instrument