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Lõõts (gender unknown)

bellows

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

Identical types: 103
Torupill

Traditionally a seal’s stomach, but also a cow’s or dog’s stomach was used, or a pig’s or cow’s bladder; Nowadays [i.e. late 20th century; ws] mainly made of dogskin.

Kott, Lõts, Magu, Tuulekott


Sources

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.115.

Personal communication

Evelin Põldoja (Zaandam (NL), 2001), translation.