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Ghaidā (gender unknown)

(with) definite article: ?

original: غيذا

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: nr. of stocks? (chanter type? / [additional] drones? [in ? stocks])

Identical types: 54

From Francis William Galpin, »The music of the Sumerians and their immediate successors: the Babylonians & Assyrians« (1937), p.19; Obsolete transliteration?; ➺ Gajda, Gajde, Gajdy, Gayda, Gojdyca, Kajdy, and Zamr.

Gaitachor, Gajda, Ghaiṭa, Ghā’ita, Raita, Rhaita

Sources

Galpin, Francis William: The music of the Sumerians, and their immediate successors: the Babylonians & Assyrians. Cambridge, 1937, p.19.

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.16 (Ghaidâ: »Galpin) (➺ 45).