The International Bagpipe Museum ( Spanish : Museo internacional de la gaita ) is located in Gijón , Asturias , Spain . The museum was founded in 1965, and moved to its current location, integrated in the Museum of the Asturian People , in 1975.
5-445: The museum houses a large collection of bagpipes from Spain, and from the remainder of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Additionally, the museum features items related to Asturian music . 43°32′16″N 5°38′01″W / 43.5377°N 5.6337°W / 43.5377; -5.6337 This article relating to musical instruments is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to Asturias, Spain
10-530: A bag ( Macedonian : мев ), with three or four tubes for blowing and playing. The Macedonian bagpipe can be two-voiced or three-voiced, depending on the number of drone elements. The most common are the two-voiced bagpipes. The three-voiced bagpipes have an additional small drone pipe called slagarche (pronounced slagar'-che) ( Macedonian : слагарче ) . They can be found in certain parts of Macedonia, most of them in Ovče Pole ( Macedonian : Овчеполието ) . On
15-506: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of bagpipes The ancient name of bagpipes in Greece is Askavlos (Askos Ασκός means wine skin, Avlos Αυλός is the pipe) Gaida (pronounced guy'-da) also known as meshnica ( Macedonian : мешница ) is the Macedonian name of the bagpipe ( Macedonian : гајда ) . It's a folk musical wind instrument composed of
20-520: The northern regions of Spain and Portugal and in the Balearic Islands . In the south of Spain and Portugal, the term is applied to a number of other woodwind instruments, a trait that the moroccan ghaita also shares, since it originated in the southern Iberian Peninsula . The gaita finds near-cognates in Eastern European and Balkan countries where it is called gaida and gajdy . Just like
25-476: The territory of Macedonia, there are two variants of the placement of the elements: All bags for these types a bagpipes are made usually from the entire skin of a goat or sheep. The use of donkeyskin has also been reported in the past. Gaita is a generic term for "bagpipe" in Castilian (Spanish) , Portuguese , Basque , Asturian-Leonese , Galician , Catalan and Aragonese , for distinct bagpipes used across
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