Categories
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Tags
- Alcestis
- aplastos
- aulos of Pydna
- aulos reeds
- Berlin
- bombyx
- Bradfield
- bridles
- bulbs
- cane
- dorian
- duduk
- early Hellenic auloi
- Euterpe
- fingering
- kataspasmata
- launeddas
- Louvre
- Maket
- mechanisms
- Megara
- mixolydian
- monaulos
- notation
- Orestes
- Phragmites
- plasis
- playing position
- polymodal
- Pompeii
- Poseidonia
- practising
- Pydna
- reconstruction
- reed insert
- reed making
- reeds
- reproduction
- resources
- scores
- Seikilos
- silk road
- technique
- Theophrastus
- Ur
- Login to this site requires ssl communication.
Click here to reload the page over ssl.
-
Responsibility for community engagement, partnerships, and the functionality of this website in perpetuity: Lotos Lab Ltd
-
Tag Archives: playing position
Thumb Exercises
The biggest task I face learning the aulos is training my thumbs to have the same facility as my fingers. On the launeddas, the thumbs take the weight of the instrument, liberating the fingers to do the fancy work. Most … Continue reading →
Significance of offset holes on Louvre aulos
Lower finger holes I find it puzzling that the lower holes veer off in the same direction on both pipes – to the left – on the lower pipe more sharply. One possible explanation occurred to me today: perhaps, the pipes might … Continue reading →
