05-05-2004, 07:29 AM
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Good point Andy, what if the musicians went down in battle?<br>
An orderless chaos? Did the noise of the battle cover the voices order when the horns went silent? Did the signa or uexilla do this job at the same?<br>
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I guess that the enemy tried, first of all, to kill, the musicians to destroy the orders chain, so a good reserve of musicians would have been provided by any legion. It could be a special unit of musicians for this duty, or a special unit of soldiers to protect the musicians during the fight and assure that they worked anyway till the last moments of the battle. Anyone knows evidences?<br>
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Moreover it's strange to me that a sort of sound amplification (ok, not electronic ) that allowed to improve the voice level, like a simple megaphone was not used by the officers...<br>
I want to try if the scutum can be used to amplify the voice, since that under a big testudo the voices becomes thundering!<br>
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Valete,<br>
Titus<br>
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Good point Andy, what if the musicians went down in battle?<br>
An orderless chaos? Did the noise of the battle cover the voices order when the horns went silent? Did the signa or uexilla do this job at the same?<br>
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I guess that the enemy tried, first of all, to kill, the musicians to destroy the orders chain, so a good reserve of musicians would have been provided by any legion. It could be a special unit of musicians for this duty, or a special unit of soldiers to protect the musicians during the fight and assure that they worked anyway till the last moments of the battle. Anyone knows evidences?<br>
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Moreover it's strange to me that a sort of sound amplification (ok, not electronic ) that allowed to improve the voice level, like a simple megaphone was not used by the officers...<br>
I want to try if the scutum can be used to amplify the voice, since that under a big testudo the voices becomes thundering!<br>
<br>
Valete,<br>
Titus<br>
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<p></p><i></i>
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10