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The Hawaiians make a trumpet from a rolled ti leaf! It is called Among the Inga tribe of Native Americans in Colombia, cow's horns are used as trumpets. The people of Uganda play several different kinds of interesting side-blown trumpets.
They can be made of gourds, ivory, or animal horns, or wood covered with animal skin.
The longest ones, which are most like trombones, are called agwara. They are usually played
for dancing. The Tucano, a Colombian Indian tribe, make trumpets out of tree bark. Some of them are
more than 15 feet long! In Switzerland and other Alpine nations, people also play long,
long wooden wind instruments called Alphorns, with a big, deep sound like a tuba.. In Hawaii, signals are sent by blowing a pu kani, or "sounding horn."
It is made from a big shell. In Latvia and Lithuania, small horns are made from goat horns.
The Latvians call theirs an azrags; the Lithuanians call theirs an ozragis. |
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