The chanter has 2 pipes. One pipe with 5 holes, one pipe with 3 holes.

People from Istria use in their singing and playing diple a special scale.

More info:

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Video's:

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The tune in video 2 is called: Balun

The diple from Hercegovina has a chanter with 2 pipes. Each pipe has 6 holes.

Unfortunately I know nothing about the technic of playing on this chanter.

  Grandpa plays diple from Hercegovina

  HKUD Studencica from Ljebuski, Hercegovina performs a song-dance and a     dance accompanied by diple

There are 3 kinds of diple. You'll find the difference in the chanter.

At first the diple from Dalmatia: in the chanter one pipe with 6 holes and one pipe with 2 holes

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In this video Risto Stojanovki plays gajda.

This video was made by mrBalvan. MrBalvan is my countryman Ivo Biegman. Risto lives in Konce, East-Makedonija. Look to the places of the pipes and compare this with the usual gajda. Mostly this type of gajda is tuned in C.

Risto plays Sitno oro. Sitno means small. The measure: 7/16  123 12 12.

If you are able to read sheets, you find below the notes.

More about Risto in next weblog. Thanks to Ivo for making this video.

In another video (Sitno) Risto played Sitno oro. Sitno oro is a beloved melody and dance in region Radovis (Macedonia).

In this video Vano and Zdravko play Sitno oro and you see the performance of Sitno by dancers.

Very interesting is: every gajda-player has his own performance of this melody.

In other video's you heard Sitno oro. But …. there is more.

In this video Vano and Zdravko play a men's dance. Measure: 6/4   12 12 12 (not 123 123!).

Give attention to bagpiper's own style.

For variety's sake another tune: Kukurigu Petle oro. Kukurigu means: to crow. Petle means: cockerel

In this video Vaso plays on his stara (=old) gajda. The tune is called osmorka. Osmorka is a dialect word for eight.

If you look to the steps of the dance you'll understand why the name Osmorka!

April 2010. In a small village near Injevo (region Radovis, East-Makedonija) I bought a stara gajda.

In this part I'll show the parts of the stara (= old) gajda and I'll play on the old gajda.
The gajda is about 75 years old!
I think it is the prototype of the nowtoday gajda in region Injevo (East-Macedonia).

The first tune is called: Kukurigu petle oro (oro of the crowing cockerel).
Second tune: Osmorka. Osmorka is a dialect word for eight.
Third tune: sitno oro.

Injevo is a small village in the neighbourhood of Radovis, East-Macedonia. Every year in May there is a very nice festival.

Bagpipers use a interesting gajda. The pipes has changed their place if you compare with the usual gajda from Macedonia. You can see it in this video.

Read at first the text below. Advice: stop the video to see the pictures.

This video is for people who like details.
In this video you will see:

- An old bagpiper from region Injevo (Macedonia). His gajdy has a long drone, but an old shape.

- Stojan with his older gajda. The drone is long.

- Stojan with his "modern" gajda. The drone is long, but has the shape of the other type of gajda in Macedonia. And … there is now a second drone ( slagar in the language of Makedonia ). I think also the influence of the other type of gajda in Macedonia.

- Stojan before his house

- In his house Stojan showed me a very old gajda, about 75 years old.
You see: a shorter drone, no slagar.

- Stojan plays during the festival on Injevo. Two fingers of his one hand are a little bit paralyse by an accident. He tries to play: Elene mome.

- Vaso plays on his old gajda: Kukurigu Petle oro

- Crven Kosta plays on his old gajda. This is a fragment from a video made by Mr Balvan ( = Ivo Biegman from Holland )

- Vaso plays on his "modern" gajda: Pajdushko

My opinion: the shape of the gajda in region Injevo has had a development.
The oldest shape is the prototype.

Sometimes it is difficult to hear the measure of a tune. I remember me that we searched to the measure of the tune Kucano played by Risto in Australia. Risto is born in Macedonia.

But after listening to this melody a lot of times I know it is 12/16 played as 123 12 12 12 123. Seldom I've heard this. So it is very interesting.

Look to this video: