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Gaita* / Ġaiṭa (gender unknown)

(with) definite article: ?

original: ? (Arabic)

bagpipe term also used for other aerophones

Identical types: 45

NOT a bagpipe, but a homonym, used for a shawm (similar to the Turkish Zurna)

Ghaïta*


Sources

Malm, William P.: Music cultures of the Pacific, the Near East, and Asia. Englewood Cliffs, 1967, p.42 (Gaita).

Collaer, Paul & Elsner, Jürgen: Nordafrika (Musikgeschichte in Bildern 1/8). Unter Mitarbeit von Brahim Bahloul, Charles Duvelle Helmut Hoffmann-Burchardi, Andrée Jabès, Angelika Jung, Vaclav Kubica, Sālih al-Mahdī, Nour-al-Din al-Salihi und Lothar Stein. Leipzig, 1983, ➺ p.80, 100 (Ġaiṭa).