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Aulos (m)

(with) definite article: o

original: αὐλός (ὁ)

(the) tubes / pipes

Hornpipe without a mouthpiece: double chanter (no drone), 1 pipe with bell / double reeds

No identical types known (yet).

Introduced in Rome in 204 BC; NB¹: ➺ Baines' observation to Launeddas; NB²: ➺ homonym (chanter, Turkey).

Divergent double-pipe with double-reeds; The left pipe, which is longer than the right one, has an upturned cow-horn bell.


Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile].

Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.57.

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.128.

Paulis, Giulio: I Romani e le launeddas. In: Launeddas: l’anima di un popolo (1997), p.222 & passim.

Montbel, Eric: Les musettes de Cour dites aussi «musettes baroques». In: Ricros (et al.): La cabrette… (2017), p.160, 176 (plural: auloi).