{"id":16578,"date":"2020-05-13T17:36:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T14:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-to.rest\/blog\/trembita-is-a-unique-musical-instrument\/"},"modified":"2020-05-13T17:36:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T14:36:57","slug":"trembita-is-a-unique-musical-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/go-to.rest\/blog\/en\/trembita-is-a-unique-musical-instrument\/","title":{"rendered":"Trembita is a unique musical instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trembits were used by the inhabitants of Transcarpathia as a kind of means of communication. This is an analog of mobile communications of the past. The sound of this instrument in mountains<\/a> it is distributed over a distance of tens of kilometers. Played on trembits shepherds<\/a>, who gathered flocks of sheep for grazing. There were also Christmas carols and trembits. Also, the signal trembita announced the death of.<\/p>\n

These days, there are very few people who produce trembits left, although the technology of their production<\/a> quite simple. From the trunk of a spruce or larch, the billet is cut out and allowed to dry the wood for a year. Then it is sawed lengthwise into two parts and the core is hollowed out. The thinner the walls of the instrument, the better it sounds. Then the prepared halves are tied together with birch bark. For convenience, they make collapsible instruments, but they sound worse. The largest of the trembita reach a length of four meters. The trembit was even noted in the Guinness book of world records as the world’s longest woodwind instrument.<\/p>\n

Today can hardly be found in the meadows pestovnikov the sound of the trembita. As a rule, trembits are played during big holidays or festivals’<\/a>or at the reception of important guests from the capital.<\/p>\n