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  2. Dord (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The dord is a bronze horn native to Ireland, [1] with excavated examples dating back as far as 1000 BC, during the Bronze Age. A number of original dords are known to exist, [citation needed] with some replicas also being built in the late 20th century. [2][3] Though the musical tradition of the dord has been lost, some modern performers like ...

  3. Lur - Wikipedia

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    Lur. A lur, also lure or lurr, is a long natural blowing horn without finger holes that is played with a brass-type embouchure. Lurs can be straight or curved in various shapes. The purpose of the curves was to make long instruments easier to carry (e.g. for marching, like the modern sousaphone) and to avoid directing the loud noise at nearby ...

  4. Carnyx - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Horn (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    Metal instruments modelled on animal horns survive from as early as the 10th century BC, in the form of lurer (a modern name devised by archaeologists). Nearly fifty of these curved bronze horns have been excavated from burial sites, mostly in Scandinavia, since the first was discovered in 1797. Many are in unison pairs, curved in opposite ...

  6. Brudevælte Lurs - Wikipedia

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    The length of the Lurs ranges between 1.5 and 2.2 metres. They have different tunes from one another and were made around 800-700 BC. Danish archaeologist Christian Jürgensen Thomsen was the first to refer to the bronze instruments with the Old Norse word luðr, before that they were referred to as "horns". Most lurs are found as hoards.

  7. Ancient Celtic music - Wikipedia

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    It was an ſ-shaped valveless horn made of beaten bronze and consisted of a tube between one and two meters long, whereas the diameter of the tube is unknown. [6] Archaeological finds date back to the Bronze Age, and the instrument itself is attested for in contemporary sources between ca. 300 BC and 200 AD. The carnyx was in widespread use in ...

  8. History of the trumpet - Wikipedia

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    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 silver. According to the Classical writers, the Egyptian trumpet sounded like the braying of an ass.

  9. Serpent (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The serpent is a low-pitched early wind instrument in the brass family developed in the Renaissance era. It has a trombone -like mouthpiece, with six tone holes arranged in two groups of three fingered by each hand. It is named for its long, conical bore bent into a snakelike shape, and unlike most brass instruments is made from wood with an ...

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