Gajda (f)
(with) definite article: Gajdataoriginal: гайда(та)
Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: drone)
Low pitched, with a deviating chanter type; Rhodope mountains; Local musicians will use this term, unless they wish to distinguish the instrument from other types (In such cases they will call the instrument, as all others do, Kaba gajda); Due to its sound and large bag, these instruments are suited for (male) singers to accompany themselves (i.e. bagpipers who sing to their own accompaniment); NB: ➺ homonyms, &c. (incl. Gaida and Gaita).
Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.88.
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.
Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.17 (»Baines), 45.