chanter

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I got a chanter from a Chinese pedlar in the street in the morning--heard the unmistakeable reedy notes coming along the street as I did business in the the cool office of Messrs Cook & Co., and leaving papers and monies went and met the smiling Chinese pedlar of sweetmeats who sold me his chanter.

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  1. noun A person, such as a chorister, who chants.
  2. noun The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played.
  3. noun A priest who sings in a chantry.

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  • Typically, a single "chanter" provides narration and recites every character's lines using different voices, accompanied by the shamisen, a traditional three-stringed instrument. —  BYU News
  • The other elbow is used to squeeze the bag, which pushes air through the chanter-the flute-looking part of the instrument, which you play with your fingers. —  Paste Magazine
  • My first lessons were on that Pakistani chanter, my left thumb sticking to the syrupy glue that dear old dad used for his earnest repair job. —  WordPress.com News
  • I don't know how many serious pipers started with a Pakistani practice chanter, but there must be a fair few. —  WordPress.com News
  • Each Merrie Monarch Hula Kahiko has three formal segments (like a concerto), introduced by an oli ( 'chant'), which can be intoned by either the 'olapa (dancers) or the ho'opa'a (' memorizer ', chanter, drummer, maestro). —  Far Outliers
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Also chantor, chaunter, early modern English chaunter, from Middle English chantour, from Old French chantur, French chanteur = Provencal cantaire, chantaire, cantador, chantador = Spanish cantador = Italian cantatore, from Latin cantator, a singer, from cantare, past participle cantatus: see chant, v.
  2. English dial., also chunter, chounter; cf. channer, chooner; partly imitative, but perhaps with reference to chant, q. v.
 

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