Bourdon

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

See also