Aulos αυλός from ancient Greek and Roman times music by Max Brumberg

Aulos or Auloi double pipes from antique Greece, an improvisation on a reconstruction of the Louvre Aulos found in Egypt, played by Max Brumberg in south France.
We had a concert night while our aulos reed workshop was happening and I decided to play this rather unusual sounding intro.

The journey to learn to play and to make reeds and the Aulos began in 2017 when I met Callum Armstrong and he introduced me to the Auloi, I felt deeply touched by the sound.
Do you feel the sound is triggering something in you?
The Aulos are from the Greek antique and were used in rituals, theatre, therapy and amusement.
The two pipes are tuned in a fourth to each other. The instrument itself is a reproduction of an instrument found in Egypt, exactly the same hole setting it must have sounded similar when people played it back then. Though the players were far more experienced playing in a tradition of an instrument being already played for about 2000ys in those days. Nowadays we are rediscovering this ancient instrument and its sounds and for me it is an amazing thing to be part of the people rediscovering the Aulos.....
The breathing technique used is the very same like on the didgeridoo, circular breathing.
The video quality was not so nice so I decided to use a cartoon filter.
Recorded with a ZoomH5, sound mastered by Alexander Ranft.

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Robin Howell

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