Gajda (f)
(with) definite article: Gajdataoriginal: гајда(та), гајди(те)
Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: drone)
From Arabic غيدا (ghaidā [gentle]) ?; Bitola; Creševo; District Gevgelija; Maleševo mountain region; Orašac; Pčinja; Skopje (and district); Skopska Crna Gora region; Štip (and district), district Sveti Nikole; Veles (and district); NB¹: According to Vukosavljević, "there are still [i.e. 1979; ws] in use three so called "moulds" (sizes) of this type, the smallest size of which is used only in the environment of Titov Veles"; NB²: = Gaida (Greece), Gajda (Serbia), Gajde [a] (Albania) and [b] (Kosovo), and Gajda [Gajde?] (Montenegro); NB³: ➺ Gayda (Turkey); NB4: ➺ homonyms, &c. (incl. Gaida and Gaita).
Traditionally entirely made of шимшир (šimšir [boxwood (Buxus sempervirens)]), with elements of buffalo or ox horn.
Blatska gajda, Brdska gajda, Džura gajda, Gajda, Kaba gajda, Kotorska gajda, Krivolakavička gajda, Mariovska gajda, Polska gajda, Rudnička gajda, Štipska gajda, Tikveška gajda
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Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.166.
Линин, Александар [Linin, Aleksandar]: Народните музички инструменти во Македонија [The folk musical instruments in Macedonia]. Скопје [Skopje], 1986, p.96, 101.
Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.118/*, 169*, 345-346 [4] (Sveti Nikola).
Џимревски, Боривоје [Džimrevski, Borivoje]: Гајдата во Македонија: инструмент - инструменталист - музика ([The bagpipe in Macedonia]). Скопје [Skopje], 1996, p.70.
ws (plural)Вукосављевић, Петар Д. (Vukosavljević, Petar D.): Гајде у Србији – њихова сазвучја и могућност уклапања у савремени народни оркестар = Bag – and – drone pipes in Serbia: their chording and compatibility with a modern folk music orchestra. Београд (Beograd), 1979, p.15 (»Blagoje Ristovski, Prilep).