Amazing Craftsmanship! Ancient Alphorns With Old Hand Tools

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@Peasantartcraft 29 күн бұрын

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@LaFermeDesSimples 12 күн бұрын

Romania is one of the very few country who kept alive its peasant artcraft. One day, I'll come to learn. Greats from France.

@refugio311 18 күн бұрын

From the start it looks like your splicing together the horns of the rams…. What a great twist to see it is all possible with arbor.

@iduratiats2080 18 күн бұрын

Ich bin begeistert. Danke

@nene-b6p Ай бұрын

I know it’s hard work but please never stop making these videos. ❤️

@88divinegrace Ай бұрын

Good job with the editing. The Alphorns are beautiful. Thank You for sharing.

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

@88divinegrace Thank you for watching!

@violetasfeclis2183 Ай бұрын

Folk craftsmen have kept traditions alive, and have passed them on from generation to generation. Thank you for offering us beauty, creativity and artistic value through everything you do. A special channel!❤

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

@@violetasfeclis2183 Thank you for watching!

@eaglebreath5 Ай бұрын

That ram head draw knife is wonderful. I would enjoy one very much.

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

@@eaglebreath5 I thought so too when I saw it. I had never seen such thing before.

@sajjadkhan9563 Ай бұрын

What a great work gud .❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@giomba Ай бұрын

Felicitări pentru tot ce faceți. Oameni, locuri, meserii, tradiții care vor rămâne valori inestimabile pentru sufletul românesc. Urmăresc cu mult drag și interes acest canal. Dumnezeu să vă binecuvânteze,. ❤

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

@@giomba Și pe dumneavoastră! Sperăm că aceste valori vor dăinui. Sărbători fericite!

@Hanna1968 Ай бұрын

We have the alp horn in the German Alps too. It's a famous Instrument in Bavaria and Austria.

@jameskniskern2261 Ай бұрын

One thing not mentioned is that the horn body is made from coppiced ash poles. The distinctive curve at the big end is a direct result of coppice agriculture. I find this fascinating, since I had always wondered how the curve was achieved. Turns out the trees do it themselves. Also the coppice is grown in a shaded area, which makes the rings shown at 0:07 seconds so tight. The tree grows slowly.

@ucenicul Ай бұрын

The craftsman says the instrument is made of maple wood, not ash as it says in the subtitle. At minute 0.07 you can see the cherry wood.

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

Yes, they are made of coppiced maple poles, but they are not grown in controlled environement, but the craftsperson has to search for the right trees through the woods. They are very rare to find, maybe one or two in a year.

@duke7803 28 күн бұрын

Trees naturaly grow a curve at their base when on a eroding hillside. The young trees will get pushed to the side by moving earth and then continue growing upwards which creates the curve. You could achive the same by planting them at a steep angle as saplings.

@TheEudaemonicPlague 28 күн бұрын

I hadn't noticed the tight rings, thanks for pointing them out. I'm slightly surprised to find I'm not the only one who noticed the coppicing. I try to educate people about the practice, especially when people use "coppice" when they mean "thicket"...I learned about coppicing as a teenager. For a couple of years, a Libyan family, the father having been the Libyan dictator's gardener, for some reason was living next door to us. He shocked me when he cut the tree in the front yard down to about a foot high, then left it. I was so amazed to see it grow multiple branches, filling out to be a nice shade tree. They moved out before they got any benefit from it, though. But I won't ever forget.

@jeffreyyoung4104 Ай бұрын

The tube is blurring out the word ASH in ash wood? As a trumpet player, I enjoy seeing the way people made horns to signal others, or make music, usually the same horns were used for both. I didn't know they had tin horns to the north though, and it would be interesting to see how that developed!

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

There is a correction. It is maple instead of ash... Unfortunately, there's nothing more I can do to correct it.

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

This is how the tin horn sounds kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKWmhKZmYp6iias

@andymuskopf8473 Ай бұрын

Circular saw marks around 3:50?

@suvacstefan8981 Ай бұрын

yes and we can see it clearly at 3:43

@44szaman Ай бұрын

Dziękuję serdecznie za pokaż robienia ligawy. Jestem profesjonalnym rzeźbiarzem i czasem robię podobne instrumenty, które biorą udział w występach mojego Teatru Performer. Gram na nich jak również moje dzieci i wnukowie.

@UncleHo5 Ай бұрын

Mă gândeam că mai întâi se lasă lemnul la uscat. Bănuiesc că tulnicul se face in același mod. Impressive work.

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

@@UncleHo5 Aveți dreptate! Lemnul se lasă la uscat. Cred că tulnicul nu este dintr-o singura bucata, pare făcut din mai multe bucăți și nu este învelit în coajă de cireș. Fiecare e interesant in felul lui.

@UncleHo5 Ай бұрын

@Peasantartcraft mulțumesc pentru răspuns. Felicitări pentru munca depusa.

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

@UncleHo5 Mulțumim! Sărbători fericite!🤗

@sheep1ewe Ай бұрын

Awesome! We have similar horns in Scandinavia, but they are slightly smaller and made from selected firwood, wrapped in birk tree bark and the nossle is straight. There was a long and a short wersion with a bulbed nossle, they said the short one was to warn for Wolf attacks on the livestock. The longer ones was for calling in cattle and comunication like those.

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

@@sheep1ewe Oh, I bet they are spectacular! How similar, yet so unique we are! I would love to see that, as well as hearing all those stories. ♥️

@sheep1ewe Ай бұрын

@@Peasantartcraft Awesome! I love this type of historical documentation and people who actively keep it alive! There has always been strong bounds between Sweden and the countrys around the Alps and the idea of freedom and equality among self sustaining peasants, In Norway and parts of north and north west Sweden there is a much longer wersion of the "näverlur" ("Näver" is birk tree bark and "lur" is refearing to the horn, but that word can mean basicaly anything from this to a headphone set or a telephone pickup... ha ha ) i think it is even longer than the Alp horn to be honest, it is more than 2 meters long, but it does not have this carracteristic curve at the bottom, it is straight and much narrower, i think the pitch is more like the straight tin horn, but with the softer sound of those old wooden horns i think those horns probably dates back to the stone age in their origin. The short horn are rare today, but they where originaly beside the wolf call in mythology, mainly used, i think, for calling goats and sheeps and comunication from shorter distance, the loger horns where used in combination wit the aincient cattle calling songs called "kulning" a sound tecnic developed for bridgling ower long distance in the forest hills of the north often in combination with the horns, it was mainly used by womans, but i think everyone used those back in time, but the men where usualy involved in the forest work in the spring and winter time, i think that is why this particular song style is mainly associated with womans today, but to be honest everyone who has experience of holding cattle free in a forest areas need to learn how to comunicate with them owe long distance whan searching for runaway cows and calling them for inspection, etc. It is just that i think the female voise is much higher pitch so it is more distinct and therefore often prefeared in show and contests, womans also tend to comunicate more verbaly to each other so it may be that as well. Most men here are using the cowboy style today, so not much has been documented about the function of mens voice in the forest, but it seem to have been less important than the womans long distance voice comunication language, which was a much more developed language which even contained a code for certain words and functions that could be spooken with the horn and the "kulning" high pitch voice. Men used to go hunting alone or with close friends here, and one of course need to be absolute quite in the forest during the hunting season, so it may have something to do with that as well i think.

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

@@sheep1ewe Oh, you remind me how much I love the Nordic cultures. Yes, I heard the kulning call performed by one of my favorite Swedish performer She also has many videos about life in Sweden that I find deeply fascinating. I love the looks and sounds of the naverlur . Do you know how the name of the short horn? Is it like a Viking horn, or are they two different things?

@sheep1ewe Ай бұрын

@@Peasantartcraft Thank You! I realy love Romania and Your rich history and culture! I did travel trou Romania by train on the way to Hungary as a little kid with my father very long time ago in the early 80s. Unfortunately i don't know the name of the short horn, but it is not the same as the viking horn, i think the viking horn probably refear to the carved goathorn which is a different instrument made from a horn with drilled holes for the fingers, i think it is native to Norway and northwest sweden, but that one is more widespred in the whole country here, it could be made from both cow or goat horn, the tones are different and not as deep, so i think that one are probably more for playing traditional flute like music among people in the past, both as solo instrument, but also i think with other instruments like bagpipes occationaly. I don't think the "näverlur" was used that way, as the goat horn. All The horn types was played by both men and womans. Before they had metal rings they where held together by firtree roots from firtrees growing on the bogs during the making process i think, but the finished horn is wrepped in birktree bark which scrinks naturaly when it dries and tie the halves together, i guess they used pitch or fish glue before they had acess to modern woodglue, et least the Same bow was made with fish glue and wrapped in birk tree bark to protect the glue from weat and snow, this will be extremely strong.

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

@sheep1ewe Thank you for all the precious information. Fish glue! That is so interesting! Here, in Romania, they used fir resin to glue the cherry bark on the bucium.

@joaquimrodrigues2097 Ай бұрын

Achei muito interessante, pois não conhecia, é maravilhoso Gostei do tocador Enache, ele é muito lindo, está de parabéns pelo seu belo serviço - Brasil

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

Glad you did! All the best! ♥️

@kingjames4886 Ай бұрын

wouldn't want anyone knowing it's made of ash wood!!

@Peasantartcraft 29 күн бұрын

My bad. It's maple, not ash, but I can not make any correction anymore.

@kingjames4886 29 күн бұрын

@@Peasantartcraft oh, is that why it's censored?

@wmcrash Ай бұрын

Awesome documentary. I just wanted to make a correction at 0:54. The wood is not ash like the caption says, it is sycamore maple - Acer pseudoplatanus. The guy says "lemn de paltin", that sycamore maple. Ash would have been 'frasin" in Romanian. Also, at 4:44, the wood for the muthpiece is improperly translated. He uses elderberry (in Romanian "soc").

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I will make the corrections. 🙌

@drewfriesen9025 29 күн бұрын

Why’d you blur out “ash” wood? Because it isn’t ash I suppose. What kind of wood is it exactly

@Peasantartcraft 29 күн бұрын

@@drewfriesen9025 That's right, it's maple wood.

@buds8423 15 күн бұрын

The alder wood looked like Elder(had a spongier pith)

@MarianTofan-vl3ts Ай бұрын

Dar cu ce o lupeşti ,coaja de cireş? Ce pastă este ?

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

Este aracet. Înainte se folosea rășină de brad 🙂

@maciejczajkowski4160 Ай бұрын

ligawka?

@thedazzlingape2006 Ай бұрын

and people complained about the size of a nokia phone, imagine having to carry around a small tree to call someone.

@Peasantartcraft Ай бұрын

@@thedazzlingape2006 🤣

@jesseerickson662 Ай бұрын

Riiiiiiiiicolaaaa

@vitosimini110 14 күн бұрын

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@TheEudaemonicPlague 28 күн бұрын

Completely ignores the interesting work that had to be done to get that shape of wood....coppicing. The tree naturally grows straight up, but when you cut it down to a foot or two high, then let it grow, the new trunks tend to start out going sideways before going straight up. If not for that work, the wood wouldn't be bent.

@michaw1668 8 күн бұрын

Well that's one option. On steep slopes trees tend to grow into this shape on their own so in a hilly country that Romania is, one could easily forego the coppicing and find the perfect log in nature.