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Drawing of the mouthpiece of an aulos. [5]There were several kinds of aulos, single or double.The most common variety was a reed instrument. [6] Archeological finds, surviving iconography and other evidence indicate that it was double-reeded, like the modern oboe, but with a larger mouthpiece, like the surviving Armenian duduk. [7]
The tsampouna (or tsambouna; Greek: τσαμπούνα) is a Greek musical instrument and part of the bagpipe family. It is a double-chantered bagpipe, with no drone, [1] and is inflated by blowing by mouth into a goatskin bag. The instrument is widespread in the Greek islands. [2]
Several authors identify the ancient Greek askaulos (ἀσκός askos – wine-skin, αὐλός aulos – reed pipe) with the bagpipe. [5] In the 2nd century AD, Suetonius described the Roman emperor Nero as a player of the tibia utricularis . [ 6 ]
The Reading Aulos on display at the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology. The Reading Aulos is the surviving half of an ancient Greek aulos (reed-blown double pipe). It is much more complete than other examples found to date, and is on permanent display at the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology in Reading, England.
The Greek bagpipe(s) may refer to: Tsampouna, a double-chantered, droneless bagpipe played mostly in the Greek Islands; Askomandoura, a Cretan bagpipe similar to the tsampouna; Dankiyo, a bagpipe played in the historically ethnic Greek regions of Trabzon and Rize in what is now Turkey; Gaida, a type of bagpipe played in northern Greece and the ...
The ancient name of bagpipes in Greece is Askavlos (Askos Ασκός means wine skin, Avlos Αυλός is the pipe) Askomandoura (Greek: ασκομαντούρα): a double-chantered bagpipe used in Crete; Tsampouna (Greek: τσαμπούνα): Greek Islands bagpipe with a double chanter. One chanter with five holes the second with 1,3 or 5 ...
[1] describing the Pontian tulum, a type of bagpipe which the ancient Greeks called an askaulos (ἀσκός askos – wine-skin, αὐλός aulos – flute). It consists of a lamb skin, a blow pipe, and the double reed chanter. The dankiyo is played in small villages near Trabzon and Rize. A similar type of bagpipe possessing fewer holes can ...
Dio Chrysostom wrote in the 1st century of a contemporary sovereign (possibly Nero) who could play a pipe (tibia, Roman reedpipes similar to Greek aulos) with his mouth as well as by tucking a bladder beneath his armpit. [21] The bagpipes continued to be played throughout the empire's former realms down to the present.