semantron
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16 sectionsContents
- Description
- Portable wooden-made
- Fixed wooden-made
- Metal-made
- Use
- Gallery
- History
- Origin & Byzantine rite
- Ottoman Empire
- Modern-period use by country
- Bulgaria
- Russia
- Syriac Orthodox
- Modern composers
- References
- Bibliography
thumb|333px|A Russian monk playing a semantron
The semantron () is a percussion instrument used in Eastern, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic monasteries to summon the monastics to prayer or at the start of a procession.