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Gaita may refer to:
Musical instruments
- Gaita (bagpipe), various types of bagpipes common to northern Spain and Portugal:
- Gaita asturiana, a bagpipe used in the Spanish provinces of Asturias, northern León and western Cantabria
- Galician gaita, or gaita de foles, a bagpipe used in the Spanish provinces of Galicia, León, western Zamora, and in Trás-os-Montes, Portugal
- Gaita alistana, a bagpipe used in Aliste, Zamora, north-western Spain.
- Gaita cabreiresa, or gaita llionesa ("Leonese gaita"), an extinct but revived pipe native to León.
- Gaita de boto, a bagpipe native to Aragon, distinctive for its tenor drone running parallel to the chanter
- Gaita de saco, or gaita de bota, a bagpipe native to Soria, La Rioja, Álava, and Burgos in north-central Spain. Possibly the same as the lost gaita de fuelle of Old Castile.
- Gaita sanabresa, a bagpipe played in Puebla de Sanabria, in the Zamora province of western Spain
- Gaita transmontana, also known as gaita-de-fole transmontana or gaita mirandesa ("Mirandese gaita"), a bagpipe native to the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal
- Gaita gastoreña, a hornpipe musical instrument native to El Gastor, Andalusia
- Gaita navarra, a flute named after the Navarre region of Spain
- Colombian gaita (gaita colombiana), the Spanish name for kuisi, fipple flutes native to Colombia and parts of Panama
Music
- Gaïta, an early music ensemble
- Gaita Zuliana, a Venezuelan musical genre
People
- Raimond Gaita (born 1946), Australian philosopher and writer
See also
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