Trombita
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From the Alps to the north slopes of Carpathian Mountains the sound of trombita can be heard wherever shepherds spend months with their flocks in high mountains. It is an unusual instrument: a hard to play, few meters long pipe (still, the Beskidy highlanders know haw to do it!). However its prolonged, low tone could be heard for centuries in the mountains informing fellow-shepherds of each flock’s whereabouts. As we can hear, trombita did not disappear from the mountains after mobile phones were introduced.