Gaita
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Musical instruments
- Various types of bagpipesBagpipesBagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from...
common to Spain and Portugal such as:- Gaita asturianaGaita asturianaThe gaita asturiana is a type of bagpipe native to the autonomous communities of Asturias and parts of Cantabria on the northern coast of Spain.-Differences from other Iberian gaitas:...
, a bagpipe used in the Spanish provinces of Asturias, northern León and western Cantabria - Galician gaitaGalician gaitaThe gaita or gaita de foles is a traditional bagpipe of Galicia, Asturias and northern Portugal.The name gaita is used in Galician and Spanishlanguages as a generic term for "bagpipe"...
, Gaita de Fole or Leonese gaita, a bagpipe used in the Spanish provinces of Galicia, León, western Zamora, and in Trás-os-Montes, Portugal - Gaita de botoGaita de botoThe gaita de boto is a type of bagpipe native to the Aragon region of northern Spain.Its use and construction were nearly extinct by the 1970s, when a revival of folk music began. Today there are various gaita builders, various schools and associations for gaita players, and more than a dozen...
, a bagpipe native to Aragon, distinctive for its tenor drone running parallel to the chanter - Gaita de sacoGaita de sacoThe gaita de saco is a type of bagpipe native to the provinces of Soria, La Rioja, Alava, and Burgos in north-central Spain. In the past, it may also have been played in Segovia and Ávila...
, a bagpipe native to Soria, La Rioja, Alava, and Burgos in north-central Spain. Possibly the same as the lost gaita de fuelle or Old Castile. - Gaita transmontanaGaita transmontanaThe gaita transmontana is a type of bagpipe native to the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal.-External links:*...
(or gaita mirandesa), a bagpipe native to the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal - Gaita sanabresaGaita sanabresaThe gaita sanabresa is a type of bagpipe native to Sanabria, a comarca of the province of Zamora in northwestern Spain.The gaita sanabresa features a single drone. The scale of this chanter is distinct from others in Spain, more resembling the gaita transmontana in the neighboring regions of...
, a bagpipe played in Puebla de Sanabria, in the Zamora province of western Spain
- Gaita asturiana
- Gaita gastoreñaGaita gastoreñaThe gaita gastoreña is a type of hornpipe native to El Gastor, a region of Andalucia, Spain. It consists of a simple reed, a wooden tube in its upper part, and a resonating bell of horn in its lower part. Such instruments are only found outside El Gastor in Madrid and in the Basque Country...
, a hornpipe musical instrument native to Andalusia - Gaita flutes, the Spanish name for kuisi, fipple flutes native to Colombia and parts of Panama/
- RhaitaRhaitaThe rhaita or ghaita is a double reed instrument from Northern Africa. It is nearly identical in construction to the Arabic mizmar and the Turkish zurna....
, a North African shawmShawmThe shawm was a medieval and Renaissance musical instrument of the woodwind family made in Europe from the 12th century until the 17th century. It was developed from the oriental zurna and is the predecessor of the modern oboe. The body of the shawm was usually turned from a single piece of wood,...
like wind instrument
Music
- GaïtaGaitaGaita may refer to:Musical instruments*Various types of bagpipes common to Spain and Portugal such as:** Gaita asturiana, a bagpipe used in the Spanish provinces of Asturias, northern León and western Cantabria...
, an early music ensemble - Gaita Zuliana, a Venezuelan musical genre
People
- Raimond GaitaRaimond GaitaRaimond Gaita was until 2011 Foundation Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University and Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College London...
(b. 1946), Australian philosopher and writer