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The sound of the salpinx was being digitally recreated by the Ancient Instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application (ASTRA) project which uses physical modeling synthesis to simulate the sound of the salpinx. Due to the complexity of this process, the ASTRA project uses grid computing on hundreds of computers throughout Europe to model ...
The Greek playwright Aeschylus described the sound of the salpinx as "shattering"; the word salpinx is thought to mean "thunderer". At the Olympic Games, contests of trumpet playing were introduced for the first time in 396 BCE. These contests were judged not by the participants' musical skill but by the volume of sound they generated.
The Salpinx was a straight trumpet 62 inches (1,600 mm) long, made of bone or bronze. Homer’s Iliad (9th or 8th century BCE) contain the earliest reference to its sound and further, frequent descriptions are found throughout the Classical Period. [9] Salpinx contests were a part of the original Olympic Games. [10]
In anatomical contexts, salpinx is used to refer to a type of tube. Per Terminologia Anatomica , the Latin term "tuba" is usually used to describe most tubes (after the Roman tuba , not the modern tuba ), but the term "salpinges" and its adjectival derivatives are still sometimes used to describe the following two "tubes": [ 1 ]
Ancient Greek warrior playing the salpinx, late 6th–early 5th century BC, Attic black-figure . Music was almost universally present in ancient Greek society, from marriages, funerals, and religious ceremonies to theatre, folk music, and the ballad-like reciting of epic poetry. This played an integral role in the lives of ancient Greeks.
Angels sounding trumpets. With the exception of some early European instruments such as the Greek salpinx and Roman tuba, cornu and buccina, pre-13th century European trumpets were horns, shaped like oxen horns until encounters with Islamic armies' nafirs inspired creation of instruments such as the Spanish añafil and French buisine.
Tiger growl Jaguar making a content "sawing" sound. Camel: grunt Capybara: squeak, [8] chatter, bark Cat: mew, meow, purr, hiss, trill, caterwaul, growl Cat meow Domestic cat purring: Cattle: moo, low Chicken: cluck, buck, crow [9] cha-caw, bah-gawk (female) [10] cock-a-doodle-doo (male) Rooster crowing: Chinchilla: squeak [11] Cicada: chirp ...
Modern sound reconstruction [ edit ] The Greek barbitos is part of the Lost Sounds Orchestra, [ 21 ] alongside other ancient instruments which Ancient Instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application (ASTRA) have recreated the sounds of, including the epigonion , the salpinx , the aulos , and the syrinx .