birch trumpet: Latvia musical instrument
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The
birch trumpet is a kind of natural trumpet that is manufactured with the use of
a birch bark. The musical instrument is popular in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Latvia. Even cruder and non lasting versions of the
musical instrument were manufactured of the same material. They are connected
with the early Chalet culture of Europe, where the musical instrument was
presumably used to scare predators away, frighten some supernatural enemies and
to convene council gatherings ad meetings.
The
musical instrument, as a natural trumpet, therefore has no finger holes or
valves. Usually, a player of the musical instrument can perform ten tones from
the natural scale on the musical instrument. In the contemporary days, the
musical instrument is mainly a cultural curiosity that is used for the
occasional fanfare.
In
Normway, a culture school known as Tolgakultureskole teaches the playing of the
musical instrument to all interested students or individual that is living in
the region.
The
oldest recovered version of the musical instrument is Sweden has been traced
back to the 10th century and is analogous to the earliest bronze
trumpet.
