Gaita-de-fole coimbrã
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The gaita-de-fole coimbrã is a type of old Iberian bagpipe. Along with the machinho de Coimbra (a kind of cavaquinho) and the viola toeira (a traditional guitar), it is one of the most important traditional music instruments in the Beira Litoral Province. The Coimbra bagpipe belongs to the Iberian gaita-family. Unlike a Galician bagpipe, the chanter is thinner and smaller and presents an old "out-of-tune" scale, the drone is larger, heavy, but showing a fine woodturning job, and the old blow mechanism is primitive and very hard to handle. Also the goat skin is used in a different way from the North of Portugal and Galicia: the chanter goes to the "left" leg, the drone to the "right" leg, and the blow tube on the neck.
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