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How to use aulos in a sentence

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At the symposium, women danced and sang and performed on the double-reeded aulos, or lyre, having been hired, sometimes, on the street.
Although the aulos has received much praise over the ages, it has rarely been used in performance since the ancient era.
To her right, a boy is floating in the air, trying to banish the winter by playing his aulos.
The Dionysians, on the other hand, preferred the reed-blown aulos and were identified by subjectivity, emotional abandon, and sensuality.
Each aulos was made of cane, wood, or metal and had three or four finger holes.
On the other side of the deity, a group of young people dances to the sound of an aulos, a double pipe.
Young Lucius plucked a mournful dirge on the kithara and soon Drusus broke out his aulos.
The Greek version of the double reed was the aulos.
The final Byzantine instrument, the aulos was a double reeded woodwind like the modern oboe or Armenian duduk.
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.
Greek vase paintings often showed the kithera and the aulos.
And a woman with a hetaera mask, playing the aulos is accompanied by an assistant, an unmasked boy on the left.
Pipes with idioglot reeds have been identified from later civilisations, for example the Greek aulos and the Sardinian launeddas.
Wind instruments were mainly three, the Aulos, Syrinx, and Salpinx.
Examples from Classical Literature
On a mosaic of Monnus in Trves10 is represented an aulos which also appears to have a beak-shaped mouthpiece.
The probability is that both single and double reeds were at times used with the Greek aulos and the Roman tibia.
The bore of the aulos was very much narrower than that of the clarinet.
This is more fully explained in the articles Clarinet and aulos.
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