Gajda (f)
(with) definite article: Gajdataoriginal: гайда(та), гайди(те)
Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: drone)
From Arabic غيدا (ghaidā [gentle]) ?; Used in typical Bulgarian ensembles to accompany songs and dances; Traditionally, the Gajda is the only instrument used to accompany the ancient, nocturnal fire-walking ritual "Нестинарство" [Nestinàrstvo (in Greek: αναστενάρια [anastenária])], connected with the feast of St. Constantine and St. Helen in the Strandža mountain region (SE Bulgaria); This ritual, in which Bulgarians and Bulgarian Greeks participated, died out in 1956, but thanks to a revival it was entered, in 2009, in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists; NB¹: ➺ Čifte gajda and Kaba gajda; NB²: ➺ homonyms, &c. (incl. Gaida and Gaita) & Sakfluto.
Balkanska gajda, Džura gajda, Preslavska gajda, Ravno sredna gajda, Rusenska gajda, Salmanska gajda, Smedovska gajda, Sredna gajda, Srednočernogorska gajda, Šumenska gajda, Žeravnenska gajda
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Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.168*-175, 254-255, 303-304 & passim.
Кацарова, Р.Д. [Kacarova, R.D.]: Гайдите на единъ шуменски майсторъ [Иван Гайдарджиев] (Un atelier de cornemuses à Choumen [Ivan Gaïdardjiev]). In: ИНЕМ 12 (София [Sofija], 1936).
Тодоров, Манол [Todorov, Manol]: Български народни музикални инструменти: органография (Bulgarian folk instruments [organography]). София [Sofija], 1973, p.72-86.
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Прашанов, Тодор [Prašanov, Todor]: Начална школа за гайда [Elementary tutor for bagpipe]. [1964: Ръководство за свирене на гайда [Manual for bagpipe playing]]. София [Sofija], 1974 [2], p.5.
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