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Buxa (f)

(with) definite article: a
plural: Buxas; (with) definite article: as
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socket for the insertion of one or more pipes

Identical types: 50
Gaita galega

From "buxo" [boxwood (Buxus sempervirens)]; Traditional term, undoubtedly implying that the Galician gaitas originally were manufactured only (or mainly) from this kind of wood;
NB: ➺ homonyms, &c.

Bocal, Buxaina

Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile] (»Revista musical De Arana).

Estévez Vila, Xaime: A gaita no eido da música [The [Galician] bagpipe in the field of music]. Vigo, 1987, p.25.

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