page_title: List of bagpipes
section_title: Spain and Portugal
hierarchical_section_title: List of bagpipes / Southern Europe / Spain and Portugal
caption_attribution_description: English: Old handmade bagpipe from Coimbra. Photo taken late 1930, Armando Leça.
context_page_description: 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 Irish traditional music.
  Great Irish Warpipes: Carried by most Irish regiments of the British Army until the late 1960s, when the Great Highland Bagpipe became standard. The Warpipe differed from the latter only in having a single tenor drone.
  Brian Boru bagpipes: Carried by the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and had three drones, one of which was a baritone, pitched between bass and tenor. Unlike the chanter of the Great Highland Bagpipe, its chanter is keyed, allowing for a greater tonal range.
  Pastoral pipes: Although the exact origin of this keyed, or un-keyed chanter and keyed drones, pipe is uncertain, it developed into the modern uilleann bagpipe.
context_section_description: Gaita is a generic term for "bagpipe" in Castilian (Spanish), Portuguese, Basque, Asturian-Leonese, Galician, Catalan and Aragonese, for distinct bagpipes used across 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. Just like the term "Northumbrian smallpipes" or "Great Highland bagpipes", each region attributes its toponym to the respective gaita name.  Most of them have a conical chanter with a partial second octave, obtained by overblowing.  Folk groups playing these instruments have become popular in recent years, and pipe bands have been formed in some traditions.
  Gaita alistana: played in Aliste, Zamora, north-western Spain.
  Gaita asturiana:  native to Asturias, north-western Spain.  Very similar to the gaita galega but of heavier construction with an increased capability for octave jumps and chromatic notes.
  Gaita de boto:  native to Aragon, distinctive for its tenor drone running parallel to the chanter.
  Gaita cabreiresa (or gaita llionesa):  an extinct but revived pipe native to León.
  Galician gaita: traditional bagpipe used in Galicia, north-west Spain and the Minho river valley, northern Portugal. There are a lot of famous Galician bagpipers, for example, Carlos Núñez
  Gaita de saco:  native to Soria, La Rioja, Álava, and Burgos in northwestern-central Spain.  Possibly the same as the lost gaita de fuelle of Old Castile.
  Gaita sanabresa: played in Puebla de Sanabria, in the Zamora province of north-western Spain.
  Gaita-de-foles mirandesa or gaita transmontana:  native to the Miranda do Douro, Vimioso, Mogadouro and Braganza in Tras-os-Montes region, northern Portugal.
  Gaita-de-fole Coimbrã:  native to Coimbra in Beira Litoral region, center Portugal.
  Odrecillo: a small medieval bagpipe, with or without drones.
  Sac de gemecs: used in Catalonia (north-eastern Spain).
  Xeremia:  played in the island of Majorca, often accompanying the flabiol and drum.
caption: Old handmade Gaita Coimbrã. 1930, Armando Leça.
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