Gaita may refer to:

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Gaita (bagpipe) Northern Europe Ireland *Uilleann pipes: Also known as Union pipes and Irish pipes, depending on era. Bellows-blown bagpipe with keyed or un-keyed 2-octave chanter, 3 drones and 3 regulators. The most common type of bagpipes in Music of Ireland, ...

, various types of bagpipes common to northern Spain and Portugal *

Gaita gastoreña The gaita gastoreña is a type of hornpipe native to El Gastor, a region of Andalucia, Spain. It consists of a simple reed, a wooden tube in its upper part, and a resonating bell of horn in its lower part. Such instruments are only found ou ...

, a hornpipe musical instrument native to El Gastor, Andalusia *

Gaita navarra The gaita narvarra is a double reeded flute-like folk instrument originating from Navarra, Spain. The gaita narvarra is very similar to the Spanish folk instrument known as the dulzaina. Both are variants of shawms, from Spain. The reeds of the ...

, a flute named after the Navarre region of Spain * Gaita Zuliana, a Venezuelan musical genre *

Kuisi A kuisi (or kuizi) is a Native Colombian fipple (or duct) flute made from a hollowed cactus stem, with a beeswax and charcoal powder mixture for the head, with a thin quill made from the feather of a large bird for the mouthpiece. Seagull, tur ...

, or Colombian gaita, fipple flutes native to Colombia and parts of Panama

People

Raimond Gaita Raimond "Rai" Gaita (born Raimund Joseph Gaita; 14 May 1946) is a German-born Australian philosopher and writer, best known for his 1998 biography about his early life, titled '' Romulus, My Father''. He was foundation professor of philosophy a ...

(born 1946), Australian philosopher and writer

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