Büchel (musical instrument)
The Büchel is a brass instrument based on the natural trumpet principle . The classification as a brass instrument results, regardless of its material (mainly wood) from the type of sound generation, analogous to the closely related alphorn , to which the Büchel is also very similar in its design. In contrast to the alphorn, the design is folded into three adjacent sections, so the length of the instrument is only about 90 cm. The acoustic length of the tube corresponds to that of an alphorn in the same tuning. With an acoustic length of 245 cm, the keynote is C.
When playing, the instrument is held horizontally in the hands, comparable to the handling of a trumpet or trombone.
In Muotatal the Büchel is also Trümpi called as otherwise in the central Switzerland , the jaw drum means. Other European wooden trumpets are bucium in Romania, fakürt in Hungary, tramba salaska in Slovakia, trembita in Ukraine and in southern Poland, bazuna in northern Poland, busen in Slovenia and lur in Sweden.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Büchel. (No longer available online.) In: tobiasloew.ch. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013 ; Retrieved December 4, 2014 .
- ↑ The book. In: myalphorn.com. Retrieved August 22, 2016 .
- ^ Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser : The folk musical instruments of Switzerland. ( Ernst Emsheimer , Erich Stockmann (Hrsg.): Handbook of European Folk Musical Instruments . Series 1, Volume 4) Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1981, p. 38
- ^ Max Peter Baumann : Wooden trumpet (i). In: Grove Music Online , 2001