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The ancient Nordic lur was made of bronze and dates back to the Late Bronze Age (1000–500 BCE). This extraordinary instrument consisted of an elaborate S-shaped conical tube, usually about 2 metres (7 ft) in length, with a slightly flared bell. It was an end-blown natural trumpet, and sounded rather like a modern trombone. To date, fifty-six ...
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.
A Bronze Age lur found in Brudevælte Mose, northeast of Lynge in Zealand, Denmark [1] A modern lur from Norway, made of wood wrapped in birch bark. A lur, also lure or lurr, is a long natural blowing horn without finger holes that is played with a brass-type embouchure.
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.
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 ...
In Ireland, a wooden trumpet was found in the Erne River and attributed to the "early Christian Period...8th-10th century." [78] The yew-wood trumpet was carved in two halves lengthwise and bound together with strips of bronze, with a bronze mouthpiece. [78] [79] This Irish trumpet has resembles trumpets illustrated in the Vespasian Psalter. [79]
Using a supply list written on a clay tablet, a team of experts in the United Arab Emirates has reconstructed a Bronze Age ship. Shipwrights built the 59-foot (18-meter) Magan boat with hand tools ...
The carnyx was a wind instrument of the Iron Age Celts, attested for ca. 300 BC to 200 AD. It is a kind of bronze trumpet, held vertically, the mouth styled in the shape of a boar's head. It was used in warfare, probably to incite troops to battle and intimidate opponents. [28]