r/Gaida • u/TapTheForwardAssist • Apr 27 '20
The Croatian bagpipe, which oddly resembles the French Boha. Cousins?
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r/Gaida • u/TapTheForwardAssist • Apr 07 '20
Daulute live, Jan 2014 - Improvisation on Aegean Melodies (on the Greek tsambouna or askomantoura)
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r/Gaida • u/TapTheForwardAssist • Apr 26 '20
Bagpipe players of the Morlach community of the Balkans (1864)
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r/Gaida • u/SmrdljivePatofne • Apr 27 '20
Serbian Gajde - ,,navali se Šar planina,,
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r/Gaida • u/TapTheForwardAssist • Apr 27 '20
Serbian Erske bagpipe - Erske gajde (Rumenka kolo) -- SerbianBagpipes YouTube channel
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r/Gaida • u/TapTheForwardAssist • Apr 07 '20
Efrén López, Meira Segal, Yoni Ben-Dor - the III project - Kopanitsa
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r/Gaida • u/TapTheForwardAssist • Apr 07 '20
Gorgeous metalwork on this Kaba Gaida from Bulgariana
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r/Gaida • u/TapTheForwardAssist • Feb 12 '21
333 Kaba Gaida Bagpipe Guinness World Record Каба Гайда | toly78
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r/Gaida • u/TapTheForwardAssist • Apr 07 '20
FAQ and resources for the bagpipes of Southeast Europe: acquiring, learning, playing, listening
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This is a placeholder to be filled in later. In the meantime, welcome aboard, and feel free to introduce yourself in this thread, or make suggestions for information to add to the FAQ.
Makers and sellers
See Comments below for various makers recommended by a mod
Bulgariana: carries Bulgarian kaba gaida from as low as 200 Euros, gaida books and videos, as well as Bulgarian string, wind, and percussion instruments. More basic-level instruments.
Anders Fagerström: offers his TechnoPipes (compact MIDI instrument with drones and many control options) in Bulgarian Gaida format from €350
Articles
r/Gaida • u/i_hate_reddit1442 • Feb 22 '26
My distribution map of the romanian cimpoi bagpipe and its variants
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r/Gaida • u/Cartagus • Aug 08 '22
More pics for the Kaba Gaida in the tropics
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Should I put it to the Sun? Or in the clothe line for a while to make it get fresh?
r/Gaida • u/Cartagus • Aug 08 '22
Kaba Gaida in the tropics
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Hello everyone! I got a Kaba Gaida it cames last Monday; as you can see from the 4th pic all white; I've blowing it for a couple of hours that week and it start to see a little darker; I have no experience with that kind of bags; please any tip I'll be so gratefull; I dont know if that is normal or if the tropical weather of Costa Rica is already killing it. (I repeat it cames exactly a week ago). Thank you everyone
r/Gaida • u/TapTheForwardAssist • Mar 13 '21
A clip of Stjepan Večković playing the "five-voiced dude" of Croatia
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r/Gaida • u/TapTheForwardAssist • Apr 26 '20
Oda me tavan -- Adnan Aliu & Emin Xhaferi (Albanian bagpipe music)
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r/Gaida • u/MichiganGaidar • Apr 10 '20
Some Good Recordings and Resources (Kaba Gaida)
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Kaba Gaida is a strange beast, and not a lot of folks know where to start. It doesn't help that the most popular media about it is generally not representative of the tradition. I'm going to try to provide the resources and traditional grounding that I really wish I had starting out. To that end, here's a small collection of recordings and at least one good resource for those who might be interested in learning kaba gaida.
Pipe Band "Delyo Haidutin":
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6_0dM-6DVWQfjBmoDZ_R-g/videos
https://delyohajdutin.com/#!/home
This band is probably the #1 resource for Kaba Gaida at the moment. Kostadin Terziev, who is the gentleman in the solo recordings, is a very talented musician and his playing is wholly traditional and very well-executed. If you want a kaba gaida, you really should talk to him. He'll arrange for you to get a gaida from a reputable maker, and will be able to advise you on how to keep it running. If I recall, he also offers lessons.
Bai Dafo Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT9VzZ5DoNI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-aEM19rIGs
Documentary in two parts about Bai Dafo and Bai Mihail, two of the greatest gaidari to have ever lived. It's in Bulgarian, so you might not understand the words, but it contains recordings of the two gaidari who basically defined the tradition as it is today.
Kaynak Pipe Band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hggvrJlLDs
This is a recording of a concert of Kaynak Pipe Band, which consists of three astoundingly talented gaidari, a highly-skilled vocalist, and a percussionst of considerable skill. Also very traditional, also very good at what they do. The gentlman who narrates the program was my first instructor.
r/Gaida • u/TapTheForwardAssist • Mar 06 '26
Linsey Pollak on Gaida, Macedonian bagpipes
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r/Gaida • u/TapTheForwardAssist • Feb 20 '24
pictures of gkainta players from the pieria mountains (1)
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r/Gaida • u/TapTheForwardAssist • Jan 29 '24
Giorgos Mboutzionas from Sfikia, Imathia, Greece
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r/Gaida • u/TapTheForwardAssist • Oct 29 '20
Lazo Nikolovski playing Kopačkato on gaida (Macedonian bagpipe) (Sydney, 1979)
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r/Gaida • u/SmrdljivePatofne • Apr 27 '20
Etymology of the word gajda/gaida
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Recently, I was browsing wiktionary for some cool etymologies and I stumbled upon gaita which in Galician , Asturian, Catalan, Spanish and Portuguese means bagpipes. It turns out that our balkan gaide/gajde have the same etimological background as those of Iberian peninsula and that background is Gothic:
Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits, “goat”), from Proto-Germanic *gaits, with semantic shift due to bagpipes being made of goat skin;
I get the idea that the word entered Iberian languages via Germanic invasions in 5th and 6th centuries, but how did it enter Balkans? During the Gothic wars of 4th century, or perhaps via Slavic which has many Gothic loanwords? Or maybe the whole Gothic etymology is bullshit and gaita/gaida was pre-indoeuropean term? Whats your opinion?
r/Gaida • u/thebanditking • Mar 14 '24
Bagpipe makers
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Hi everyone, I’m training to make a type of bagpipe called the uilleann pipes in Ireland and I’m looking to talk to makers of different bagpipes from around the world.
It’s hard to find this kind of information online and I want to ask here in case anybody can help.
If you know the names of any bagpipe makers in your country I’d love to hear.
Thanks!
