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 With mouthpiece
Maker: Szczotka Andrzej
Date: 1983
Village / Town: Kiczyce
Region: the Carpathian region (Beskid Żywiecki)
Country: Poland
Owner: The Municipal Museum of Żywiec – The Old Castle, Department of Ethnography
Inventory number: MŻ-E/1966
Description: body made of a section of a young tree, halved lengthways, hollowed, joined together and wrapped up in bark; mouthpiece shaped by woodturning; duct profile partly cylindrical, party conical
Decoration: body stained dark brown, profiled mouthpiece
Measurements: 3080 x 170 x 40 mm
Materials: wood (spruce), bark (birch)
Sound compass, tuning: the player may produce individual sounds of a harmonic series (aliquots) by increasing or reducing the force with which he blows air into the trumpet; tuning depends on the instrument's length
Performance practice: originally used for signalling, driving spirits away (mainly by shepherds); nowadays used by artists of the folk revival
Catalog card by: Barbara Rosiek / Zbigniew Jerzy Przerembski


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