aulos
Sign in to saveAn aulos (plural auloi; : , plural : ) or was a wind instrument in ancient Greece, often depicted in art and also attested by archaeology.
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- Instrument.name
- Aulos
- Instrument.image
- Banquet Euaion Louvre G467 n2 cropped.jpg
- Instrument.caption
- Man playing an aulos: Attic red-figure cup painted by the Euaion Painter, 460 B.C.–450 B.C.
- Instrument.background
- woodwind
- Instrument.classification
- woodwind
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- Reed aerophones: 422.121.2
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Double reed instruments – two lamellae beat against one another, double oboes with fingerholes.
- Instrument.related
- LauneddasRhaitaShawmSopilaSornaSuonaTibiaTsampounaTulumZampognaZurna
- Instrument.sound sample
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- Banquet Euaion Louvre G467.jpg
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- Auloi
- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 422.111.2
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- Background
- Mythic origin
- Depiction in art
- Chigi vase
- Herakles in his tenth labor
- Modern use and popular culture
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An aulos (plural auloi; : , plural : ) or was a wind instrument in ancient Greece, often depicted in art and also attested by archaeology.
Though the word aulos is often translated as "flute" or as "double flute", the instrument was usually double-reeded, and its sound—described as "penetrating, insisting and exciting"—was more akin to that of modern woodwind instruments such as oboes or bagpipes with a chanter and (modulated) drone.
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