note played by a half step, and it is used in creating the musical ornamentation that gives Balkan music its unique character. Some types of gaida can have a double bored chanter, such as the Serbian three-voiced gajde. It has eight fingerholes: the top four are covered by the thumb and the first three fingers of the left hand, then the four fingers of the right hand cover the remaining four holes. Drone The drone (ruchilo, ison, prdaljka, prdak, brčalo) is a long pipe which provides a constant harmony note, and thus has no finger-holes. It is generally a long, three-piece tube with a note much lower than that of the chanter. Types Gaidas in the Balkans include, but are not limited to: Kaba gaida – a large Bulgarian bagpipe of the Rhodope mountains which has a hexagonal and rounded drone. Often described as a deep-sounding gaida Dzhura gaida – a bagpipe typically found in Bulgaria which has a straight conical drone. In contrast to the kaba gaida, this is a higher pitched instrument Macedonian gaida – Played in the region of Macedonia, the bagpipe is structurally between a kaba and dzhura gaida and is described as a medium pitched gaida Players and makers Kostadin Varimezov Dafo Trendafilov Vassil Bebelekov Pece Atanasovski See also For other types of bagpipes with similar name, see gaita Notes References External links The presence of the gaida in Greece Bagpipes Albanian musical instruments Greek musical instruments Croatian musical instruments Serbian musical instruments Slovenian musical instruments Bulgarian musical instruments Bosnian musical instruments Macedonian musical instruments Turkish musical instruments sr:Гајде