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Identifier: lifeofgreeksroma00guhl (find matches)
Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
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oldest form of the aulos isseen Fig. 241, b and n; it resembles a short shepherds pipe(schalmei), and the figures holding it in both cases are takenfrom the statues of shepherds. The form of the mouthpieceappears distinctly in Fig. 241, a, d, e, f. The clarinet (fiovavhos,jj.ovoKahafxos) with one tube only is seen also on the frieze of the I 208 DOUBLE AULOS. Parthenon; but still more common was the double clarinet, calledby the Romans tibice gemince. It consisted of two tubes blownsimultaneously by means of one common or two separate mouth-pieces (Fig. 241, a, d, e,f, i, k, I), and comprises as many notes asthe syrinx. The tube held in the right hand, and blown with theright side of the mouth, had three holes, and was called by theRomans tibia dextrai by the Greeks the male clarinet (auAo?avlpijios) ; the left tube had four holes, and was called tibiasinistra, or female aulos (av\6$ yvvaLKrjios). The formerproduced the lower, the latter the upper notes.* The tubes are a b c dief g h
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1c I Fig. 241. either both of the same length and shape (used to accompanyrevels and gymnastic exercises, Fig. 241, a, d, f, k, I), or ofunequal length but equal shape (avXol ya^jXioi) ; or, finally,differing totally both in shape and length (Fig. 241, e, i). Thepipes might be with (Fig. 241, d) or without keys (Fig. 241,a, fy k, I). The first-mentioned instrument (d) appears on a sarco-phagus in the Yatican, in the hands of a genius displaying the * Double shepherds pipes, called dutka, are still used by peasants in certainparts of Kussia. THE SALPINX. 209 attributes of Euterpe. Sometimes the lower opening was shapedlike a bell (kwIwv) (Fig. 241, c d), as in our clarinets. ThePhrygian double-pipe (cXv/uloi avXoi), with one tube straight andthe other bent downwards like a horn, shows the largest extensionof the tube-opening. Fig. 241, i, shows a female figure playingthe Phrygian double-pipe, taken from a sarcophagus in theVatican ; the two Phrygian pipes, put crosswise (e), aretaken f

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