A new music was born, which kept the name musette or bal musette. They started playing alongside small-pipe players, eventually replacing them. The Gare de Lyon train station, leading to Italy, was not far away, and many migrants from the other side of the Alps settled in the area, bringing with them their accordions. There, in courtyards, people danced the emblematic bourréeto the sound of the cabrette (also called musette), the Auvergnat small-pipe. At the time, café-charbons of the Bastille area were owned by people from the Auvergne, a mountainous region in central France. Like tango in Buenos Aires or rebetika in Athens, Parisian bal musette is an urban musical style born in the early twentieth century from a melting pot of cultures.
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