My understanding, confirmed with a native German-speaking friend last
night, is that Bordun is a musical process not connected to a
specific instrument (like continuo basso) and when used with the
pipes (Dudelsack) it refers to "Brummpfeife/n", i.e. the drones.
Rev John Clifford
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<_www.bagpipe.de_ (http://www.bagpipe.de) says 'Bordunen'
This is correct - but only in the dative case. The nominative, accusative and
genitive plural is "Bordune" (and the genitive singular is "Borduns").
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As a thick person, does this have anything to do with Bordon as in organ stop
etc?
Dru Brooke-Taylor
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A german dictionary says the plural form is "Bordune", same with
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie.
Hartmut
Ann Sessoms schrieb:
>A question for German speakers: Does "der Bordun" have a plural form, or
> do
>people use "Bordunpfeifen"?
>
>Thanks,
>Ann
>
Hello Ann,
as far as I know, "der Bordun" means the lowest tone of a number of
sounds, e.g. the bell with the lowest tone in a cathedral. As such,
there should be only one singular form of the word. Theoretically,
the plural form would be "die Bordunen", and if this makes sense
depends of
Where I work (at a home for intellectually disabled people) there is an
instrument in the music department known as a "Bordun Lyre". We have about
4 - 5 of them and each one is tuned to a different chord. They can be easily
retuned to major or minor chords as required and are played one after th
