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Gajdy (f) (plurale tantum)

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

Identical types: 59
Gajdy

Northern Slovakia; Area of distribution closely connected to that of bagpipes of southern Poland and Moravian Slovakia (especially Horňácko and Wallachia); NB: ➺ homonyms, &c. (incl. Gaida and Gaita).

Gajdy

Dudanky, Dudi, Dudička, Dudičky, Dudy, Dud̆i / Duďi, Goralské gajdy

Bas, Dychac / Dychač, Gajdica, Mech, Piskor, ·? (stock [Term not mentioned in available sources])

Gajdy

Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile].

Elschek, Oskár: Die Volksmusikinstrumente der Tschechoslowakei, 2 (Handbuch der europ. Volksmusikinstr. 1/2;2 [Slowakei]). Leipzig, 1983, p.203, 212.

Dictionaries, &c.

Vilikovská, Júlia & Vilikovský, Pavol: Slovensko-Anglický slovník / Slovak-English dictionary. Bratislava, 1971 (3)