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2004, Photo: Milan Pajk

Truta is the ensemble for the revival of Slovene and European art- and folk musical heritage of the past centuries, from the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the Present, based on archival sources.

It was established in 1999. The ensemble revives and gives concert performances – also based on the researches of Dr. Mira Omerzel–Mirit and her sound- and ensemble reconstructions, done in cooperation with the members of the ensemble and supported by their high sensibility to sound – of the archival resources of musical heritage of the past periods (12th–16th century) in which the so-called folk music of the 19th and 20th centuries meets with the so-called art music of the past elites as it had lived in the castles, towns and boroughs.

The performers try to point out the connections between folk music of the 19th and 20th centuries and art music from the 12-16th centuries at the concerts entitled “Slovene and European Musical Tradition”, “Old Folk- and Art Instruments between the Past and the Present”, “From St. Nicholas to the Epiphany (the December Ritual Time of Our Ancestors)”, etc.

The Truta ensemble is composed of the members of the Trutamora Slovenica: Dr. Mira Omerzel–Mirit, Mojka Žagar Gašperšič and Tine Omerzel Terlep.



The members of the Truta ensemble use in their performing twenty to thirty instruments of proper antique value and reconstructions – in addition to the
already listed instruments – they also use:

– reconstructions of medieval dulcimer and psaltery
– reconstructions of medieval bagpipe and its predecessors
– hurdy-gurdy
– zink
– string drum
– Trumscheit
– Streichpsaltery
– numerous developmental stages of flutes and recorders
– sopele and Schalmei
– various percussion instruments and scraping sound-producing implements
– jaw harps
– earthenware pot bass
– various horns (made of wood or animal horns)
– various tambourines and drums, etc.




 
 





























































 
  KEY TO INSTRUMENTS


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European Renaissance-folk dulcimer
European medieval-Renaissance dulcimer
European m
edieval bow string psaltery
medieval-Renaissance-folk cross flute/stranščica
medieval-folk bagpipe
bass recorder
melodic tamburitza/ bisernica
chordal tamburitza/brač
Slovak fujara
wooden cross flute/žvegla »five«
wooden cross flute/žvegla »six«

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violin zither
drone zither
clay ocarina
wooden double flute/dvojnice
panpipe/trstenke
wooden double flute/šurla
triangel
cow horn
wooden spoons

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jaw harp
earthenware pot bass
horseshoe
mirliton/nunalca
tambourine
little bass/violoncello
kneading-trough as percussion instrument/nečke