On a mosaic of Monnus in Trves10 is represented an aulos which also appears to have a beak-shaped mouthpiece. |
Each aulos was made of cane, wood, or metal and had three or four finger holes. |
The probability is that both single and double reeds were at times used with the Greek aulos and the Roman tibia. |
The Greek version of the double reed was the aulos. |
At the symposium, women danced and sang and performed on the double-reeded aulos, or lyre, having been hired, sometimes, on the street. |
The final Byzantine instrument, the aulos was a double reeded woodwind like the modern oboe or Armenian duduk. |