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What is an aulos?

What is an aulos? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) Any of a class of ancient Greek musical instruments resembling pipes or flutes.
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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.

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