At the symposium, women danced and sang and performed on the double-reeded aulos, or lyre, having been hired, sometimes, on the street. |
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Although the aulos has received much praise over the ages, it has rarely been used in performance since the ancient era. |
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To her right, a boy is floating in the air, trying to banish the winter by playing his aulos. |
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The Dionysians, on the other hand, preferred the reed-blown aulos and were identified by subjectivity, emotional abandon, and sensuality. |
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Each aulos was made of cane, wood, or metal and had three or four finger holes. |
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On the other side of the deity, a group of young people dances to the sound of an aulos, a double pipe. |
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Young Lucius plucked a mournful dirge on the kithara and soon Drusus broke out his aulos. |
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The Greek version of the double reed was the aulos. |
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The final Byzantine instrument, the aulos was a double reeded woodwind like the modern oboe or Armenian duduk. |
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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. |
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Greek vase paintings often showed the kithera and the aulos. |
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And a woman with a hetaera mask, playing the aulos is accompanied by an assistant, an unmasked boy on the left. |
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Pipes with idioglot reeds have been identified from later civilisations, for example the Greek aulos and the Sardinian launeddas. |
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Wind instruments were mainly three, the Aulos, Syrinx, and Salpinx. |
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