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Fole (m)

(with) definite article: o
(the) bellows

air reservoir: flexible (usually of animal skin), ready for the insertion of stocks

Identical types: 105

Traditionally made of kid, goat, or sheep-skin, nowadays [i.e. late 20th century; ws] more generally of rubber (caoutchouc), usually with a simple monochrome (sometimes a patterned) cloth cover.

Bolsa, Fuôlhe, Odre, Saco


Sources

Veiga de Oliveira, Ernesto: Instrumentos musicais populares portugueses [1966]. Lisboa, 1982 (2), p.322.

Web

Wikipedia (Gaita de fuolhes [Text in Mirandês "dialect" !]).
ibidem (Gaita de fole), ➺ Cada secção, um termo, n°02 [NB (Oct. 2025): oddly referring to an ill. of a Scottish bagpipe!].