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
  • Burden (music): 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