Aulos
Sign in to saveAn aulos (plural auloi; : , plural : ) or was a wind instrument in ancient Greece, often depicted in art and also attested by archaeology.
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Aulos
- Instrument.image
- Banquet Euaion Louvre G467 n2 cropped.jpg
- Instrument.caption
- Man playing an aulos: Attic red-figure cup painted by the Euaion Painter, 460 B.C.–450 B.C.
- Instrument.background
- woodwind
- Instrument.classification
- woodwind
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- Reed aerophones: 422.121.2
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Double reed instruments – two lamellae beat against one another, double oboes with fingerholes.
- Instrument.related
- LauneddasRhaitaShawmSopilaSornaSuonaTibiaTsampounaTulumZampognaZurna
- Instrument.sound sample
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Wikidata facts
- Country of origin
- Ancient Greece
- Image
- Banquet Euaion Louvre G467.jpg
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- Commons category
- Auloi
- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 422.111.2
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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