Bourdon

Bourdon derives from the French for bumblebee, and may refer to:

• Bourdon (bell), the lowest bell in a set
• Bourdon (organ pipe), a stopped organ pipe of a construction favored for low pitches
• Bourdon (surname)
• Drone (music): The lowest course of a lute, or the lowest drone pipe of a bagpipe, sometimes called a bourdon
• 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
• Bourdon (grape), another name for the French wine grape Douce noir

See also

• Bourdon gauge or Bourdon tube, named after Eugène Bourdon
• Boudon
  • Boudon noir, an alternative name for the Italian wine grape Dolcetto
• Boudin (disambiguation)
• Burden (disambiguation)