The cabrette comprises a chanter for playing the melody and a drone, but the latter is not necessarily functional. Though descended from earlier mouth-blown bagpipes, bellows were added to the cabrette in the mid-19th century. It is said that Joseph Faure, of Saint-Martin-de-Fugères en Haute-Loire, first applied a bellows to the cabrette. Faure, a carpenter stricken with lung disease, was inspired when he used a bellows to start a fire.

• Chabrette, a similarly named bagpipe used in the Limousin region of central France

• Dedicated cabrette site

• "Guide to the Cabrette". The Bagpipe Society. Retrieved June 3, 2018.