Galician gaita

The Galician gaita, Spanish Gaita Gallega, short Gaita, from Arabic al - Ghaita; is a bagpipe of Galicia in northern Spain.

Name

Gaita is a set of bagpipes and double reed instruments without an air bag in Arab North Africa and southern Europe, for example, the Bulgarian bagpipe Kaba Gajda and the oboes Ghaita in the Maghreb and Algaita in Niger. In the Maghreb, the name Ghaita and ZAMR are used interchangeably and refer to not only the local, but widespread throughout the North African Oriental room, zmr derived from the Arabic root consonants double reed instruments such as mizmar or zummara.

Design

The bag is traditionally made from a goatskin or sheepskin ( fol ), now often made ​​of textile membrane, and is covered with cloth or has colored trims. The crook ( soprete ) has on the inside a valve ( Zapon ), plus there are one to three tuners ( drones ) and a melody pipe ( punteiro ). All pipes are attached to the bag by bocales ( buxas, buxainas ).

The largest of the tuner ( ronco, Roncon ) is located right next to the crook. It is composed of three parts: primo segundo and tertio copa, the whole formation is called á varado ronco. The ronco is two octaves below the tonic of the chanter. On ronco depends a multicolored Frans cord ( borla or Farrapo ), center is a tassel that perilla, available. If the second, higher tuner is present, it is called ronqueta. He is an octave below the tonic of the chanter. Rarely do you find a third tuner in octave or a fifth apart, the ronquillo.

All tuners run cylindrical and are provided with single reeds ( pallons ), the chanter on the other hand has a conical bore and a double reed ( Palleta ).

There are different forms of Gaita:

• Gaita grileira, gallego, bagpipe in D with tuner.
• Gaita redonda, gallego, bagpipe in C.
• Gaita tumbal, Gaita roncadora, gallego, bagpipe in B, with 2 tuners.
• Gaita Zamorana, Spanish bagpipe with two tuners.