hammer clapper

Local name: kołatka
Classification: 1 Idiophones / 11 Struck idiophones
Maker: Szwajca August
Date: 1985
Village / Town: Trosna
Region: Silesia
Country: Poland
Owner: The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
Inventory number: PME 46597
Description: a wooden mechanical device with 4 movable hammers fixed to a handle and striking a perpendicular small plank when shaken
Measurements: plank 200 x 60 mm, hammers 115 mm, handle 150 mm
Materials: wood, metal
Performance practice: formerly used to make ritual noise during the folk Koledari ceremonies, instead of church bells during the Holy Week, to frighten away animals during hunting, and to signal vigilance by night watchmen (in towns), nowadays also a toy
Catalog card by: Teresa Lewińska / Zbigniew J. Przerembski


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