odd instrument

[richsc]

Over in RAT there is this photo of an odd instrument; any guesses on it? It looks like it has a long key for changing the sound, but being down at the bell it would not make much change at all. The mouthpiece looks like it would accomodate an internal single/double reed, something like a bagpipe?<br>
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<img src="http://lucretius.homestead.com/files/trombone.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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Note also the one hand support. It looks like it has a head strap like an aulos. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub27.ezboard.com/bromancivtalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=richsc>Richsc</A> at: 7/10/03 3:14 pm<br></i>

[richsc]

Got the following from Susanna Ruhling of Musica-Romana<br>
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'Maybe that is a "salpinx" , the Greek version of a Roman "tuba", made out of bronze or copper and not blown as a trompet, but instead with a reed, like a bagpipe.<br>
That would explain the think face of the blower and the think blowing end...a tuba would be smaller.'<br>
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I think the long key is connected to a mute: the variations in sound would be entertaining, and can sound like a wide variety of human sound. Think Harpo Marx in Duck Soup, having a telephone conversation just with his horn.<br>
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