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Poetovio Tibia I

Posted on 29 April 2018 by Olga Sutkowska

It was 2011 when I visited the wonderful city of Ptuj for the first time in order to study the Poetovio-fragments for my PhD project on the acoustic and mechanical systems of the doublepipes from the Roman Empire period. I … Continue reading →

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A Louvre deluxe model by Robin Howell

Posted on 30 January 2018 by Barnaby Brown

In June 2017, Callum Armstrong upgraded to a deluxe Louvre model, developed for him by Robin Howell in Toronto, Canada. Callum’s first performance playing this ‘Rolls-Royce’ instrument was at the 10th MOISA Meeting in Oxford last July: The photographs above … Continue reading →

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First working reproduction of a tibia from Pompeii

Posted on 1 April 2015 by Barnaby Brown

This tibia has been reproduced from one of several pairs of pipes buried at Pompeii in 79 AD. It was made by Peter Holmes with the help of Martin Sims and Neil ‘Spike’ Melton in a collaboration between the European … Continue reading →

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