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Gaida

Gajda

Alternative transliteration; Baines’ remark that "the instrument is sometimes termed Bulgarian", is based on a misunderstanding (➺ Carabă bulgărească).
NB: ➺ homonyms / homophones.

Sources

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.85.

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.130.

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (»Baines).

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.34 (»Baines), 45.