Trembita - soul of the Karpat

The Huzul trembita which signal is heard on distance more than 10 km is included in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest wind instrument

Trembita - the ancient wind mundshtuchnykh a musical instrument. The trembita reminds a peculiar cone-shaped wooden pipe without valves or gates, up to 3 m long and with a diameter of 30 mm that increases in a bell. Sound height in a trembita depends at most air inflations. The trembita has a natural sound row, and range it reaches three octaves. Its signal is heard on distance more than 10 km.

The trembita is included in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest in the world a wind musical instrument. Interesting the fact that there are unique copies up to 8 m long!

   The trembita was used by various ethnic groups of the Carpathians: boykovets, Huzuls, lemk, bukovinets. And the trembita got the greatest distribution in Gutsulshchina. It was the alarm tool and the only means of communication of the shepherd with the village. For a long time the tradition sounds of trembitas remained to report about the first exit of the cattle to mountain pastures, to give start of plotogon of the mountain rivers, about the birth of the child or approach of a wedding. And often trembitar gave a sad message about death someone from mountain inhabitants.

In ancient times when in Huzul villages there was no communication communication, by means of trembitas reported about approach of the enemy. Patrol at tops of mountains as on relay, the friend through the friend special prearranged signals warned the population from what party and how far there is an enemy on the village. Quite often the sound of a trembita helped hunters or travelers to orient with the mountains which got lost during bad weather.

Sounds of a trembita informed on the beginning and the termination of the working day. Also senior "Potrembach", became facing the sun and watched when its shadow connects to its growth that meant the beginning in lunch time

    By long tradition the trembita was made of a lightning - a tree to which the lightning got. The age of a tree has to reach 120-150 years. It is considered that than there will longer be a lightning under the sun, the longer it to obvivatinut winds, the more loudly and more loudly there will be a trembita. Presently in Gutsulshchina metal folding sometimes meet ram which easier and to create also trasportuvata.

Now the trembita is used only as unique musical ethnographic maintenance at various festivals, Huzul holidays and ancient ceremonies among mountaineers. It is possible to tell that it is almost only ambushyurny tool which remained and didn't lose the value in musical life in the west of Ukraine.