Gajde (f) (plurale tantum)
Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter + semidrone / b: drone)
With a relatively large chanter bell; Baranja region (Berak; Darda; Petlovac; Valpovo); Slavonia region (Aljmaš; Andrijaševci; Andrijevci; Biškupci; Bobota; Bzenica; Čepin; Emovački lug [[?] woodland]; Golobrdo; Gornji Bogičevci; Ivanovci; Levanjska Varoš; Mrkoplje; Osijek (and province), Pakrac, Piškorevci; Pleternica; Prkovci Novi & Stari; Retkovci; Slavonski Brod (and surroundings); Tomašanci; Velika; Vinkovci; Vrbica); Srijem [Syrmia] region (Komletinci, Otok, Tovarnik, and an instrument brought, ca. 1920, from Vinkovci by Pavle Lukić); NB¹: = Gajda [a] (Serbia [Gajde golemo]) and [b] (Vojvodina), and Gajde (Bosnia & Hercegovina); NB²: In Marcuse erroneously (most probably due to ignorant misreading of Slavonia) also located in Slovenia [sic]; NB³: ➺ homonyms, &c. (incl. Gaida and Gaita).
Gajde
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Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.19, 119/*, 120 (»Stojanović), 175-196/*, 266, 307, 308, 310, 345-347, 375.
Brömse, Peter: Flöten, Schalmeien und Sackpfeifen Südslawiens. Brünn [Brno], 1937, p.89.
Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (Slovenia & Croatia: »Brömse; »MGG).
Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.34 (»Širola (1943)).
ws (➺ comment on Marcuse)Drvodelić, Milan: Croatoserbian-English dictionary / Hrvatskosrpsko-Engleski rječnik. Zagreb, 1961