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Mecha (f)

(with) definite article: la
(the) wick / fuse

upper tenon of the chanter, lodging the reed(s)

Identical types: 6
Puntero

Upper tenon [of the chanter only?], lodging the reed.

Sources

Gaita de Galicia. Paragraph (4 p.), extracted from a website that has since disappeared, p.2.