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Musicians playing the salpinx (trumpet) and the hydraulis (water organ). Terracotta figurine made in Alexandria, 1st century BC Greek warrior blowing a salpinx. A salpinx (/ ˈ s æ l p ɪ ŋ k s /; plural salpinges / s æ l ˈ p ɪ n dʒ iː z /; Greek σάλπιγξ) was a trumpet-like instrument of the ancient Greeks. [1]
Sheneb (Ancient Egyptian: šnb) was the common name in Ancient Egypt for straight natural trumpets used for military purposes. [3] The natural trumpet was probably first used as a military instrument in Ancient Egypt. The trumpets depicted by the artists of the Eighteenth Dynasty were short straight instruments made of wood, bronze, copper or ...
Note the curved trumpet, called the bukanē by the Greeks and, later, cornu by the Romans. In Ancient Greece, instruments in all music can be divided into three categories, [12] based on how sound is produced: string, wind, and percussion. The following were among the instruments used in the music of ancient Greece:
The ancient carnyx was a wind instrument used by the Celts during the Iron Age, between c. 200 BCE and c. 200 CE. It was a type of trumpet made of bronze with an elongated S shape, held so that the long straight central portion was vertical and the short mouthpiece end section and the much wider bell were horizontal in opposed directions.
The researchers chose a central location in the Chaco Culture National Historical Park and used a computer model to replicate the volume and decibel of an ancient conch trumpet.
The cornu was an ancient Roman musical instrument used in the ancient Roman military as a signaling instrument. [8] [9] It was used to give signals to the entire unit. [10] Reenactor blowing a cornu. The military writer Vegetius described the use of horns to give signals: The music of the legion consists of trumpets, cornets and buccinae. The ...
The original meaning of nafīr was "call to war", which is why the corresponding trumpet used was called būq an-nafīr. In today's Turkish, nefir means "trumpet/horn" and "war signal". [ 71 ] A distinction must be made between the straight trumpet nafīr of the early Ottoman military bands ( mehterhâne ) and the twisted trumpet boru , which ...
Greek musical instruments were grouped under the general term "all developments from the original construction of a tortoise shell with two branching horns, having also a cross piece to which the stringser from an original three to ten or even more in the later period, like the Byzantine era". Greek musical instruments can be classified into ...