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.