Skip to main

Search from vocabulary

Lengua del contenido

Concept information

Término preferido

Definición

  • A kind of horn (conical profile), made from a branch that is cut along in two halves, then each is hollowed, and finally both are put back together with the help of pitch and metal hoops; formerly used as a signal instrument (mainly in herding); since 19th c. used during Advent and watchnight service on Christmas Eve (mainly in north-east and east regions of Poland); nowadays as part of folk revival

Concepto genérico

Etiquetas alternativas

  • Legawa
  • Legawka
  • Ligawa

Creado

  • 2017-08-30

Nota editorial

  • to be translated (es)

En otras lenguas

URI

http://www.mimo-db.eu/InstrumentsKeywords/8384

Descargue este concepto: