This instrument, belonging to the Aerophones class of musical instruments, was originally used by shepherds for calling cattle and in some cases, it was used for timber transporting barges. Traveling from the eleventh century, (when it was first created), to the ninetenth century, the Ligawka became a very important religious instrument. These different religious cermonies in which the Ligawka was and is still played, would be the ceremonies of advent, the early morning mass, and during the feast of transfiguration.