Toaca ( Semantron) de la Manastirea Petru Voda. Nu exista sunet mai inaltator ca acesta

Toaca de la Manastirea Petru Voda, jud Neamt, locul in care sa nevoit intru mantuirea neamului romanesc părintele Arhimandrit Justin Parvu. Romanian Priest practicing is beating the Semantron (a wooden board made of heart of Maple or Beech) with two wooden mallets to summon the monastics to prayer. Where there is a metal Semantron, it is customary to strike it after the wooden one has been semantron is sounded every midnight for night offices (Midnight Office and Matins) this is done by the Semantra are usually suspended by chains from a peg in the proaulion (porch of the catholicon) or outside the refec