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Gaita-de-foles (f)

(with) definite article: a
(the) bellows pipe

Bagpipe, mouth-blown: 2 stocks (a: single chanter / b: drone)

Identical types: 59

Its full name, used only to distinguish this instrument from the other Portuguese Gaitas (whistle, 3-holed flute, and shawm); NB: Note the defective punctuation (Gaita de foles) in several sources; According to Marcuse, who fails to reveal her source, the instrument is also called gaita galega (which I strongly doubt; Already in the 1990s, however, I was informed that it would be rather hard to find a Gaita made in Portugal [Oliveira mentions (p.327) "the decline of local manufacturers, who are practically extinct"], and that many Portuguese pipers would buy their instrument from a Galician maker [e.g. Obradoiro Seivane; ws]; In my opinion, only such instruments can, justly, be called "Galician"); NB¹: ➺ Brazil; NB²: ➺ homonyms.

Gaita transmontana, Gaita-de-foles mirandesa, Gaitinha, Realejo


Sources

Veiga de Oliveira, Ernesto: Instrumentos musicais populares portugueses [1966]. Lisboa, 1982 (2), p.315-331.

Meer, John Henry van der: La sordellina: organologia e tecnica esecutiva. In: Baldano: Libro per scriver l’intavolatura per sonare… (1995), p.75, 76 (Gaita de foles).

Meré, Rafael: Museo Internacional de la Gaita: catálogo. Gijón, 1970, p.59 (Gaita de foles).

Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975 (Gaita de foles).

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974 (Gaita de foles), p.27 (»Oliveira), 45, 60, 63-66.