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Gaita cabreiresa

The gaita cabreiresa (or gaita llionesa (lhionesa)) was a type of bagpipe native to the comarca of La Cabreira, in the Spanish province of León. The instrument had become extinct, but was revived through the efforts of bagpiper Moises Lieb…

Moisés Liébana, gaitero leonés de la comarca de Cabrera.
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The gaita cabreiresa (or gaita llionesa (lhionesa)) was a type of bagpipe native to the comarca of La Cabreira, in the Spanish province of León. The instrument had become extinct, but was revived through the efforts of bagpiper Moises Liebana and ethnographer Concha Casado in the 1990s. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Gaita cabreiresa”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Gaita cabreiresa is all about Gaita Cabreinresa, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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