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: Piwowarczyk Stanisław
Date: 2007-2008
Village / Town: Żabnica
Region: the Carpathian region (Beskid Żywiecki)
Country: Poland
Owner: The Municipal Museum of Żywiec – The Old Castle, Department of Ethnography
Inventory number: MŻ-E/3253
Description: body made of a section of a young spruce tree, halved lengthways, hollowed and joined together; mouthpiece shaped by woodturning; duct profile partly cylindrical, party conical
Decoration: body and mouthpiece stained light brown, varnished; mouthpiece and the adjacent part of the body corrugated lengthways
Measurements: 2525 mm
Materials: wood (spruce)
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: Weronika Kasperek / Zbigniew Jerzy Przerembski


<< Back