Toaca şi clopotele - Mănăstirea Putna

“ Toaca “ and the bells at Putna monastery: “ Laudo Deum verum, plebem voco, congrego clerum; defunctos plango, fulmina fugo, festa decoro. - I praise the true God, I call the people, I assemble the clergy; I bewail the dead, I dispense storm clouds, I do honour to feasts.“ “ Toaca “ is a percussion instrument made of a long, thick and well-planed piece of timber which is hit in different rhythms by 1 or 2 wooden hammers, with a technique requiring special skills. It is used chiefly in monasteries to