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  2. Galician gaita - Wikipedia

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    The Galician gaita (Galician: Gaita galega, Portuguese: Gaita galega, Spanish: Gaita gallega) is the traditional instrument of Galicia and northern Portugal. [ 1 ] The word gaita is used across northern Spain as a generic term for " bagpipe ", although in the south of Spain and Portugal it denotes a variety of horn, flute or oboe like ...

  3. List of woodwind instruments - Wikipedia

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    Western concert flute; Fife; Alto flute; bass flute; Contra-alto flute; Contrabass flute; Subcontrabass flute; Double contrabass flute; Hyperbass flute; Bansuri (India) Irish flute; Koudi (China) Dizi (China) Native American flute; Daegeum (Korea) Nohkan (Japan) Ryūteki (Japan) Shinobue (Japan) Švilpa (Lithuania) Venu (India) Kaval (Anatolian ...

  4. Uilleann pipes - Wikipedia

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    Like some older pipe organs, uilleann pipes are not normally tuned to even temperament, but rather to just intonation, so that the chanter and regulators can blend sweetly with the three drones. Equal temperament is almost universal with the fixed pitch instruments used in Irish music, which can clash with the tuning of the pipes.

  5. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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    Set of cylindrical shawm-like instruments, with an air reservoir like a bagpipe: 422.121-62 Baganda peoples of Uganda: endongo [18] Bowl lyre made of lizardskin with strings tied to a piece of wood inserted into two holes on two arms 321.21: Balochs: suroz [19] Bowed string instrument with a long neck, similar to a fiddle or sarangi and played ...

  6. Woodwind instrument - Wikipedia

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    Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute , clarinet , oboe , bassoon , and saxophone . There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and reed instruments (otherwise called reed pipes).

  7. Hurdy-gurdy - Wikipedia

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    Like most other acoustic stringed instruments, it has a sound board and hollow cavity to make the vibration of the strings audible. Most hurdy-gurdies have multiple drone strings, which give a constant pitch accompaniment to the melody, resulting in a sound similar to that of bagpipes. For this reason, the hurdy-gurdy is often used ...

  8. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    Bagpipe Great Highland bagpipe: variable D ♭ 4 - D 4: A minority of bagpipes, made for playing with other instruments, are exactly D ♭ 4 (referred to as B ♭, relative to the tonic note A rather than C). Most bagpipes are sharper than this, between D ♭ 4 and D 4. [1]. Northumbrian smallpipes in F or F+ B ♭ 4 for F (~20 cents sharp for F+)

  9. Aulos - Wikipedia

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    Like the Great Highland Bagpipe, the aulos has been used for martial music, but it is more frequently depicted in other social settings. [9] A normal flute would produce insufficient volume to be of any use in military application, where a double-reed could be heard over larger distances, and over the clamour of marching whilst wearing armour.