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Tag Archives: Pompeii
The Seikilos Song on the Pompeii aulos
Here is the best-known ancient melody, played, for the first time since antiquity, both on a reproduction of an ancient instrument and in the original pitch (a = c. 480 Hz, so to say). The finger span on the lower pipe (Pompeii Pipe 2) … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient scores, Learning to play, Pompeian tibiae
Tagged fingering, Pompeii, reproduction, Seikilos
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First working reproduction of a tibia from Pompeii
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
Posted in Pompeian tibiae
Tagged knobs, mechanisms, Pompeii, reproduction, rotating rings
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