© Moldavchuk

"In times not long past we might have heard the long haunting wail of the trembita—the alpenhorn of the Carpathians— echoing off the hills. These radically long horns would have been sounded by Hutsul shepherds, calling in sheep and dogs from out of the evening mists, or Hutsul heralds, announcing funerals, weddings, or attacks."

— page 138, Into the Carpathians, Part 1
© Alan E. Sparks