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Gajdica (f)

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quadruple chanter, 1 piece (chanter, semidrone and 2 drones): cylindrical, parallel, no bell / single reeds

No identical types known (yet).
Gajdy

Diminutive of Gajda; Tubular, with 4 bores: left front: the actual chanter, right front a semidrone, and at the back 2 drones; NB: ➺ homonyms.

One of the drones produces the keynote - tonic - of the chanter, the other one sounds an octave higher.

·? (chanter: drone of a triple or quadruple chanter [Term not mentioned in available sources])

Sources

Elschek, Oskár: Die Volksmusikinstrumente der Tschechoslowakei, 2 (Handbuch der europ. Volksmusikinstr. 1/2;2 [Slowakei]). Leipzig, 1983, p.229 (type only, no term).