Gaita

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Gaita may refer to:

Musical instruments

• Various types of bagpipes common to northern Spain and Portugal and a variety of horn, flute or oboe like instruments in the south (see list of bagpipes):
  • Asturian gaita, a bagpipe used in the Spanish provinces of Asturias, northern León and western Cantabria
  • Galician gaita, or gaita de foles, a bagpipe used in the Spanish provinces of Galicia, León, western Zamora, and in Trás-os-Montes, Portugal
  • Gaita alistana, a bagpipe used in Aliste, Zamora, north-western Spain.
  • Gaita cabreiresa, or gaita llionesa ("Leonese gaita"), an extinct but revived pipe native to León.
  • Gaita de boto, a bagpipe native to Aragon, distinctive for its tenor drone running parallel to the chanter
  • Gaita de saco, or gaita de bota, a bagpipe native to Soria, La Rioja, Álava, and Burgos in north-central Spain. Possibly the same as the lost gaita de fuelle of Old Castile.
  • Gaita navarra, a flute named after the Navarre region of Spain
  • Gaita sanabresa, a bagpipe played in Puebla de Sanabria, in the Zamora province of western Spain
  • Gaita transmontana, also known as gaita-de-fole transmontana or gaita mirandesa ("Mirandese gaita"), a bagpipe native to the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal
• Gaita gastoreña, a hornpipe musical instrument native to El Gastor, Andalusia
• Colombian gaita (gaita colombiana), the Spanish name for kuisi, fipple flutes native to Colombia and parts of Panama

Music

• Gaïta, an early music ensemble.
• Gaita Zuliana, a Venezuelan musical genre.

People

• Raimond Gaita (b. 1946), Australian philosopher and writer.

See also

• Gaida, a Balkans bagpipe.
• Rhaita, a north-west African shawm like wind instrument.

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