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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.
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.

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