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Carnyx from the Tintignac group. Three carnyx players depicted on plate E of the Gundestrup cauldron. The ancient carnyx was a wind instrument used by the Celts during the Iron Age, between c. 200 BC and c. AD 200. 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 ...
Cornu (horn) A cornu or cornum (Latin: cornū, cornūs or cornum, " horn ", sometimes translated misleadingly as " cornet "; pl.: cornua) was an ancient Roman brass instrument about 3 m (9.8 ft) long in the shape of a letter 'G'. The instrument was braced by a crossbar that stiffened the structure and provided a means of supporting its weight ...
Blowing the shofar. A shofar (/ ʃoʊˈfɑːr / [ 1 ]shoh-FAR; from שׁוֹפָר , pronounced [ʃoˈfar] ⓘ) is an ancient musical horn typically made of a ram 's horn, used for Jewish religious purposes. Like the modern bugle, the shofar lacks pitch -altering devices, with all pitch control done by varying the player's embouchure.
Sringa. Narsinga. Baroque trumpet. Sound sample. Sound of closely related Añafil. Nafir (Arabic نَفير, DMG an-nafīr), also nfīr, plural anfār, Turkish nefir, is a slender shrill-sounding straight natural trumpet with a cylindrical tube and a conical metal bell, producing one or two notes.
Ancient warfare. Ancient warfare is war that was conducted from the beginning of recorded history to the end of the ancient period. The difference between prehistoric and ancient warfare is more organization oriented than technology oriented. The development of first city-states, and then empires, allowed warfare to change dramatically.
Crwth — the ancient Celtic lyre. [edit] Not much is known about the ancient Celtic lyre, only that it was used by Celtic bards since the 8th century BC and that it was later well known in Rome, where it was called lyra. [ 41 ] Its resonator was made from wood, while only few components were made from bones.
Heimdallr blows into Gjallarhorn in an 1895 illustration by Lorenz Frølich. In Norse mythology, Gjallarhorn (Old Norse: [ˈɡjɑlːɑrˌhorn]; "hollering horn" [ 1 ] or "the loud sounding horn" [ 2 ]) is a horn associated with the god Heimdallr and the wise being Mímir. The sound of Heimdallr 's horn will herald the beginning of Ragnarök ...
Tutankhamun's trumpets are a pair of trumpets found in the burial chamber of the Eighteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The trumpets, one of sterling silver and one of bronze or copper, are considered to be the oldest operational trumpets in the world, and the only known surviving examples from ancient Egypt. The trumpets were found in 1922 by ...