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What is a chanter?

A chanter is:

Music and Audio:

- A melody pipe in a bagpipe.

- A reed pipe used in instruments like the shawm, the biniou kozh, the bombarde, and the Highland pipes.

- A simple woodwind instrument like a shawm or a recorder, used for practice purposes or as a toy.

- A drone pipe used in Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean countries, such as Turkey and Egypt, for certain music genres.

- A term used to refer to the part of a pipe organ that produces sound.

- A kind of organ stop, usually consisting of a set of pipes of progressively increasing length.

- A small medieval keyboard instrument, consisting of a box with several sets of pipes.

Botany:

- A mushroom of the genus Cantharellus, commonly known as the chanterelle.

Other:

- A person who chants.

- A singer who performs or leads the singing of hymns or psalms.

- A person who gives sermons or discourses.

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