Northern Evros region The most known is in the geographical department of Thrace. Especially the northern Evros region where the instrument survived and some gaida players managed to [...] Read more

Drama Traveling to the west we come across the gaida players from the geographical department of Makedonia. In Northern Drama region (villages of Volakas, Kali Vrisi and Prosotsani). Their [...] Read more

Perfecture of Serres In the perfecture of Serres in Central Makedonia region the village of Alistrati and Agriani are well known for its gaida players.

Perfecture of Katerini and Larissa Further in the west we have the Pierian gaida west of mount Olympus. The villages of Elatochori, Katafigio, Daskio and Rizomata in the Thessaly region are [...] Read more

Perfecture of Pella in the geographical department of Central Makedonia In the perfecture of Pella there is only some sporadic presence of gaida, although it was quite common in the past. [...] Read more

Geographical department of Epirus Unfortunately for Epirus there is no information about gaidas available. The gaida vanished from this region in the beginning of the 19th century, as new [...] Read more

Aegean Islands A variant of the askaulos is played also the southern parts of Greece, especially on the Aegean islands it is called tsambouna. The tsambouna has two canes which produce the [...] Read more