On a mosaic of Monnus in Trves10 is represented an aulos which also appears to have a beak-shaped mouthpiece. |
Although the aulos has received much praise over the ages, it has rarely been used in performance since the ancient era. |
The ancient double reed was used in the Greek aulos and its precursors and later in the shawm and its relatives, which were played from Mediterranean lands eastward to China. |
On the other side of the deity, a group of young people dances to the sound of an aulos, a double pipe. |
The probability is that both single and double reeds were at times used with the Greek aulos and the Roman tibia. |
The Dionysians, on the other hand, preferred the reed-blown aulos and were identified by subjectivity, emotional abandon, and sensuality. |