#wind instrument

[knightofleo]

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[songs-of-the-east]

Romanian Women Play the Bucium (Trâmbiță)

The trâmbiță is a traditional long wooden horn, similar in form and function to the alphorn. It is primarily associated with Romanian and Vlach shepherd culture, especially in the Carpathian Mountains. It is also used in other Carpathian areas within Slovakia, Serbia, Poland, and Ukraine; in the last two countries it is known as trombita (Polish) and trembita (Ukrainian).

These instruments and their associated traditions are clear markers of the shared Carpathian highland pastoral culture, much of which was shaped by Vlach shepherd settlement between the 13th and 18th centuries.

It's used was traditionally for communicating between long distances between shepherds, announcing events, and as a community signal system with different sounds expressing different events such as births and deaths, alongside ritual purposes. One of those ritual purposes was the belief that it's sound lead the souls of the dead and ancestors through the mountains.

[portalibis]

Siren (Melusine) with horn

St Martin’s Church in Zillis, Canton Graubünden, c. 1109/1114

[artandthebible]

The Sacrifice at Lystra

Artist: Sir James Thornhill (English, 1675/1676-1734), After Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520)

Date: 1729-1731

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom

Description

The Sacrifice at Lystra is a biblical event described in Acts 14: 8-18. After the apostles Paul and Barnabas miraculously healed a crippled man, the pagan citizens of Lystra mistook them for the gods Hermes (Mercury) and Zeus (Jupiter), and attempted to offer ritual sacrifices to them.

[zurich-snows]

Serpent. C. Baudouin French ca. 1820

[tine5]

Playing the ocarina of time

[arctic-hands]

Are there any gentle wind instruments less loud than a tin whistle? I feel weird practicing it in an apartment building even at noon.

I miss clarinet but my lungs aren't so strong, and my asthma doc thinks something like the penny whistle or a recorder would be great exercise, plus I want to learn music

[dudukbazaar]

Rat-warren pipe Value ●○○○○ ; Size ●●○○○ Smells like dirt and fur. Well crafted, could be transformed into a wind instrument.

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