wooden folk trumpet

Local name: trombita
Classification: 4 Aerophones / 42 Wind instruments proper / 423 Labrosones (or lip-reed instruments) / 423.1 Natural labrosones / 423.12 Tubular labrosones / 423.121 End-blown labrosones / 423.121.1 End-blown straight labrosones / 423.121.12 End-blown straight labrosones, with mouthpiece
Maker: Szarzec Jerzy
Date: 1995
Village / Town: Wisła
Region: Carpathian area (Beskid Śląski)
Country: Poland
Owner: Museum of Folk Musical Instruments in Szydłowiec
Inventory number: MLIM/MS/1261
Description: a kind of a trumpet (cylindrical profile at about two-thirds of the length) with a narrow diameter; made from a trunk of a young tree that is cut along in two halves, then each is hollowed, and finally both are put back together with the help of pitch or wrapped together with strips of bark
Measurements: 3725 x 130 mm
Materials: wood
Sound compass, tuning: harmonics (aliquots) uttered by stronger or weaker blowing
Performance practice: formerly used for signalling (mainly in herding, especially in the Carpathian region); nowadays used by artists of the folk revival
Catalog card by: Monika Sadura / Zbigniew J. Przerembski
Design (PDF)


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