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Gajdy (f) (plurale tantum)

Bagpipe, bellows-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: drone)

Identical types: 16

Western Slovakia; Extinct; Only known description encountered in Anton Vaclavík, »Podunajská dedina v Československu« (1925), p.299; NB: ➺ homonyms, &c. (incl. Gaida and Gaita).

Gajdy


Sources

Elschek, Oskár: Die Volksmusikinstrumente der Tschechoslowakei, 2 (Handbuch der europ. Volksmusikinstr. 1/2;2 [Slowakei]). Leipzig, 1983, p.203, 204 (»Vaclavík).

Markl, Jaroslav: Česká dudácká hudba: partitury Ludvíka Kuby ([Czech bagpipe music: the scores of Ludvík Kuba]). Praha, 1962, p.20.