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Copa (f)

(with) definite article: a
(the) chalice [probably after the shape of its bell]

3rd piece of a larger composed drone, remotest from the stock

Identical types: 19
Bordão

Upper tuning piece of the drone, with resonance cavity; NB: ➺ homonyms.

Boca, Bordão

Sources

Veiga de Oliveira, Ernesto: Instrumentos musicais populares portugueses [1966]. Lisboa, 1982 (2), p.323.

Web

Gaita-de-foles.net (Gaita-de-fole Trasmontana: ➺ caption to ill.).
Wikipedia (Gaita de fole), ➺ Cada secção, um termo, n°05 [NB (Oct. 2025): oddly referring to an ill. of a Scottish bagpipe!].