@LuifeSpain: Great instruments, congrats! Spent 7 weeks hitchhiking in Galiza and Asturies 10yrs ago, GREATLY enjoyed it (esp. Museo de la Gaita in Xixon). Will return someday

However - Your terminology in fingering is a bit misleading: Strictly speaking, closed fingering means lifting only ONE finger at a time to play the note, like in most Eastern European or NSPs. Ancient Galizian and actual Asturian fingerings are rather variations of what usually is called "half open" (e.g. Scottish) or "half closed" (French) fingering.
Funnily enough, I do have 3 sets of Gaitas, 1 from North-Western Portugal, 1 from Asturies (both the cheap-ones in "tourist"-quality, with rubber-bags

) and a Do-Sib-combination- set (2 Chanters, blackwood with brass, Gore-bag, 3 drones: Bass, Tenor, Baritone) from Varela (1997). ALL of these play PERFECTLY in tune open as well as half-open fingered, even crossfingered semitones work pretty well, and You get up to 4th in upper octave - at least using canereeds (the normal stuff available in any Galizian musicstore). I do have Varela's plasticreeds as well, but with those, only open-fingering works. However - since this experience, I request all beginners: "Get Yourself a cheap set of Galizian tourist-Gaita with a couple of reeds, so You can learn open and half open fingering! - Just don't forget to put the spit out of the rubber-bag afterwards..."
