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  • Опубликовано: 15 июн 2017
  • Instrumento construido por María Ruíz e Abraham Cupeiro baseándose nos cornus atopados en Pompeia no século XIX.
    Instrumento construido por María Ruíz y Abraham Cupeiro basándose en los cornus hallados en Pompeya en el siglo XIX.
    Instrument built by María Ruíz and Abraham Cupeiro, based on the cornus found at Pompeii in the 19th century.
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  • @searechanel
    @searechanel  3 года назад +295

    Buy your cd here: www.abrahamcupeiro.com

    • @jaxsonxander6470
      @jaxsonxander6470 2 года назад

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      I stupidly forgot the login password. I would appreciate any assistance you can offer me!

    • @romanalejandro749
      @romanalejandro749 2 года назад +2

      @Jaxson Xander instablaster :)

    • @jaxsonxander6470
      @jaxsonxander6470 2 года назад

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    • @jaxsonxander6470
      @jaxsonxander6470 2 года назад +3

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    • @romanalejandro749
      @romanalejandro749 2 года назад +3

      @Jaxson Xander Happy to help :)

  • @BeeWhistler
    @BeeWhistler 3 года назад +14486

    People are always saying they wish they’d been born in a different time, but I like living in a time when I can hear stuff like this without being afraid of whoever is playing it...

    • @TheMegaPingasMobile
      @TheMegaPingasMobile 3 года назад +713

      This and you can get these instruments a lot easier nowadays

    • @dolphinsarebetterthanpeopl9758
      @dolphinsarebetterthanpeopl9758 3 года назад +84

      😂

    • @jod3517
      @jod3517 3 года назад +147

      Underrated comment

    • @ryanhampson673
      @ryanhampson673 3 года назад +630

      Yea....Back then if you were in front of this sound facing it, your day probably wasn’t going to end well

    • @comtedebuffon9690
      @comtedebuffon9690 3 года назад +251

      Yeah but its kinda fake. The elements composing the experience of hearing cornu is lacked. Point of this instrument is hearing it while theres a legion coming at you

  • @RayfieldA
    @RayfieldA 3 года назад +3047

    This clip is brought to you by the letter "G".

  • @PrisonBrain
    @PrisonBrain Год назад +829

    Hearing the cornu in 2022 : "aw this sounds so cool"
    Hearing the cornu in 300 BC : *HEAVY BREATHING*

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад +9

      My descendent is still listening to this while they wait for the Internet to start working. Don't ask how or why, that just makes the Internet work even less.

    • @thurathetnaing2678
      @thurathetnaing2678 4 дня назад

      Five nights at hannibal 💀

  • @tom_something
    @tom_something 2 года назад +2220

    A trumpet's tube length is about 1.5m. The instrument shown here is has a tube length at least four times as great. So if you play a note on the trumpet, and then you play that same pitch on this horn, you are playing much higher up the harmonic series. This allows the player to blow notes that are very close to one another, without the need for valves to change the effective length of the tube. This allows for a brass instrument with no complicated moving parts, which can play complex melodies.
    The two major downsides are a reduced margin of error and fixed temper. If the blower is slightly off, they may play the wrong note. Whereas on a shorter instrument where you might be playing farther down the harmonic series, it's often enough for a beginner to be in the general neighborhood to at least make the right note play, with variable finesse.
    And all of the frequencies that can be played on this instrument are whole-number multiples of the lowest possible note. Temperament is a whole bag of worms that's a bit too much to get into here. But a horn of fixed length (no valves) is like a guitar that 1) has no frets on the neck and 2) you're also only allowed to play harmonics (can't press the string against the neck; light touch only) and 3) only has one string.
    This limits the keys that this instrument can play in, even in a solo (unless you're deliberately working outside of "comfortable" intonation, which can certainly be a thing). And it wouldn't play well in concert with most modern instruments, which tend to use equal temperament. There'd be one note in the entire scale where this instrument and the equal-temperament instrument are perfectly in tune with one another, while some other notes will sound slightly detuned, like a honkey-tonk piano. Other notes would produce a noticeable wobble called a "beat", while other notes will be so dissonant as to produce buzzing or howling sounds.
    All this to say, if you ever go to a concert where some instrument like this is being exhibited, and modern instruments are being played with it, and it sounds good, it means some people worked very very hard on bringing them together.

    • @mossy8419
      @mossy8419 2 года назад +59

      as someone with perfect pitch, the horn in this video is tuned to f, and its fundamental harmonic resonates a perfect 11th below that of a standard b flat trumpet. as such, the tube length should be approximately 1.5m * 8/3 = 4m

    • @mossy8419
      @mossy8419 2 года назад +16

      @goggles789 if you play the b flat trumpet, the note is a written g

    • @Miss-cq6iw
      @Miss-cq6iw 2 года назад +7

      Thank you

    • @tom_something
      @tom_something 2 года назад +27

      @@mossy8419 I am so grateful for the engagement on this thread, and for the modicum of experience to help me understand that @goggles789 can be totally right while @mossy84 can also be right, given the context.
      I played the trumpet in junior high and high school (for a couple months) but knew nothing about music theory at the time. And I didn't really understand why notation for instruments was often written in different keys. It didn't affect me directly, so I kept my head down and just played what was written.
      It wasn't until recently that I understood "keep your head down and just play what is written" is the whole point of that.
      I still think it's a gray area as to whether or not it's right (I'm leaning ever more toward "yes" for practical reasons and principals start to take a back seat), but at least I finally get the point of it.
      Though mossy, are you sure it's tuned to that particular F, and not, perhaps, the F below? When he goes from the 1 to the 5, I feel like I'm hearing quite a few other notes along the slur. Leads me to think that the lowest note blown in this video is not the lowest note of the instrument itself. I think he's riding high, if you catch my drift. That should be the privilege of a long horn, starting high up on the harmonic series so there are more notes to play.

    • @erikhesjedal3569
      @erikhesjedal3569 2 года назад +18

      That was interesting. Thanks for taking the time to inform.

  • @nathanleary9662
    @nathanleary9662 3 года назад +9229

    I don't think people realize how incredibly difficult it is to do this without valves and buttons to use. Holy crap.

    • @Teghead
      @Teghead 3 года назад +562

      How is he producing different pitches with the instrument?

    • @Xezlec
      @Xezlec 3 года назад +1300

      @@Teghead By changing how tight he purses his lips.

    • @Zephyrdaze1819
      @Zephyrdaze1819 3 года назад +596

      If you can play any brass instrument with that same range, you're talented. Playing without valves is no different...it's just mouthpiece buzzing.

    • @clarino8041
      @clarino8041 3 года назад +25

      So true !

    • @thardingau
      @thardingau 3 года назад +170

      It’s not difficult at all within the harmonic series. Brass players do this all the time.

  • @elcatrinc1996
    @elcatrinc1996 3 года назад +3470

    Imagine someone taking these obscure and odd instruments from history and making a jazz band with all of them

    • @serynaide7464
      @serynaide7464 3 года назад +206

      I'll be your carnyx player

    • @marco-xe9je
      @marco-xe9je 3 года назад +78

      i swear, when he started i thought he was going to play the incredibles theme

    • @03Venture
      @03Venture 2 года назад +7

      Yes, please! 🤗

    • @mme.veronica735
      @mme.veronica735 2 года назад +29

      That tenor crumhorn solo goes hard

    • @user-go3vz1di5w
      @user-go3vz1di5w 2 года назад +37

      *breaks out hurdy gurdy*

  • @ttonya_ma
    @ttonya_ma 3 года назад +65

    Imagine being in your quiet town, making bread in the morning, and then you ear this on the hills...

    • @Mr.Byrnes
      @Mr.Byrnes 2 года назад +4

      Wow. Takes you back to another age

    • @gamerforever2126
      @gamerforever2126 Год назад +4

      First thing that will come to your mind, You traveled back in time to ancient times

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад +1

      "Oh that must be the advancing army, well I'd better finish making this bread and hide forever."

  • @kalashnikov98
    @kalashnikov98 3 года назад +50

    "Gracchus! Something more cheerful!"

  • @paunaic5460
    @paunaic5460 3 года назад +4235

    No wonder there were so many myths around music and the people that mastered it. The variety of instruments and their melodies are enchanting.

    • @lourias
      @lourias 3 года назад +53

      And the walls of Jericho fell because of trumpets and feet pounding the ground!

    • @Phelan666
      @Phelan666 3 года назад +48

      Imagine if you could only ever hear a piece of music once in your life time and never, ever again.

    • @Khamomil
      @Khamomil 3 года назад

      They're not all myths.

    • @txukulun1
      @txukulun1 3 года назад

      @@aquatichighs Me atrevo a interpretar a Rey Amarillo que quiere decir que si vivieses en una aldea o ciudad romana y escuchases este o varios de estos instrumentos la impresión que te causaría. A mi también me gusta Pink Floyd pero no es ese el caso, aunque en su tiempo me causase la misma impresión que un Cornu romano o un Kornix celta le causaría a un paisano invadido por huestes romanas o celtas.

    • @vaciuxfox435
      @vaciuxfox435 2 года назад

      Sveiki!

  • @brettpearson9979
    @brettpearson9979 3 года назад +3993

    Imagine a large number of these being played as you form up for ancient battle, would get the blood pumping.

    • @theshuman100
      @theshuman100 3 года назад +222

      People: getting slaughtered
      The bard:

    • @andrewgarner2224
      @andrewgarner2224 3 года назад +48

      Unless you're on the other side then it would be knees pumping away from there.

    • @StopFear
      @StopFear 3 года назад +20

      Or it could just as easily make your knees shake

    • @wscottcarter
      @wscottcarter 3 года назад +25

      Bagpipes mate

    • @eduardocofrancesco4373
      @eduardocofrancesco4373 3 года назад +28

      @@wscottcarter exactly, the horns were used in battle to give orders, while the Romans used the bagpipes to march, very rudimentary compared to today's ones, in Italy the tradition has remained and they are called "Zampogna" very similar to the old once, the ancestor of "Zampogna" is "il doppio flauto"

  • @annelyceimgrund6884
    @annelyceimgrund6884 Год назад +112

    Just like my experience hearing the Carnax horn! So breathtaking to hear these ancient instruments played after being buried so long in Pompeii!

    • @JaapVanderHorst
      @JaapVanderHorst 7 месяцев назад

      I am for the Carnix, it looks more stunning and would have been scary in battle. Also the Cornu was the instrument of the enemy at that time.

    • @achair7265
      @achair7265 6 месяцев назад +2

      Both used in tandem would be awesome.

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      It hasn't been that long, has it? When did Vesuvius erupt like yesterday right?

  • @alex1chang1
    @alex1chang1 3 месяца назад +20

    He didn’t press any buttons but blew out different scales. It‘s really awesome!

    • @voraciousreader3341
      @voraciousreader3341 17 дней назад +1

      It’s all done with the lips (obviously, lol!), and a practiced brass player like this man only needs to think the pitches for his lips to adjust. I’m a flutist, not a brass player, and it has amazed me through the years how they can produce such beautiful music!

  • @MusicMajorMaestro
    @MusicMajorMaestro 3 года назад +5208

    This would have been terrifying to hear in battle

    • @ksoundkaiju9256
      @ksoundkaiju9256 3 года назад +287

      I'd be like "Who's playing music?"
      *Gets shot in the head with an arrow*

    • @Duron0
      @Duron0 3 года назад +35

      @CipiRipi00 Or a slingshot pellet, or maybe a plumbata :D

    • @andreaswieser444
      @andreaswieser444 3 года назад +19

      @CipiRipi00 a pilum is anything that can be thrown or shot; so it can be an arrow but also a short spear... but it is not the same "stuff" :D

    • @scintillam_dei
      @scintillam_dei 3 года назад +44

      Not as much as an Aztec death whistle.

    • @hortenseweinblatt1508
      @hortenseweinblatt1508 3 года назад +17

      Or as Martian tripods come down the hill towards the ferry.

  • @CinemaoftheMind
    @CinemaoftheMind 3 года назад +2986

    A sound you never would have heard, if not for a volcano going off in 79AD.

    • @wildliferox2
      @wildliferox2 3 года назад +134

      A sound you wouldn't want to hear....if your weren't Roman that is.

    • @OphiuchiChannel
      @OphiuchiChannel 3 года назад +95

      Without the volcano we would probably hear it more often.

    • @ante5544
      @ante5544 3 года назад +11

      @@OphiuchiChannel What

    • @OphiuchiChannel
      @OphiuchiChannel 3 года назад +31

      @@ante5544 it would not have been destroyed in the first place.

    • @ante5544
      @ante5544 3 года назад +130

      @@OphiuchiChannel I do not understand what you're getting at. The Cornu was not exclusive to Pompeii, it was a wider part of Roman Culture. That culture was an ever changing part of an Empire whose downfall occurred anywhere from 400 to 1,400 years later and whose collapse had nothing to do with Mount Vesuvius erupting. Had Vesuvius not existed, the only difference is that we wouldn't have had a well-preserved model to recreate the instrument from.

  • @yokez
    @yokez 2 года назад +50

    Imagine you're some Gallic tribesman cooking food in his village and suddenly you hear this matched with the clanking of the armor of the 1000's of men on the hill just outside town

  • @AbrahamLincoln4
    @AbrahamLincoln4 3 года назад +490

    *"The boobs are temporary. The Glory of Rome is eternal."*

  • @DavideMCMXCIX
    @DavideMCMXCIX 3 года назад +874

    Imagine hearing the same melody from the same instruments as you ancestors did 2000 years ago.. chills..

    • @droe2570
      @droe2570 2 года назад +28

      The Cornu was a military horn used to communicate orders to troops in battle.
      We don't really have many melodies from 2,000 years ago. The oldest known complete song is from Greece from around the 1st c. called The Song of Seikilos. You have probably heard bits of it in some form of media or another. There are a few versions of it on YT, actually.

    • @DavideMCMXCIX
      @DavideMCMXCIX 2 года назад +15

      @@droe2570 Yes I know, I studied ancient history at university. You obviously understood what i meant ;)

    • @starlegends3092
      @starlegends3092 2 года назад

      Oooo.
      Where was my ancesters 2000 years ago🤔

    • @starlegends3092
      @starlegends3092 2 года назад

      @@droe2570 oh cool. According to my family tree i have a few guys from Greece WAAY back.

    • @DavideMCMXCIX
      @DavideMCMXCIX 2 года назад +1

      @@starlegends3092 Honestly you can reconstruct it on quiet well at some spots on earth. Especially when your family is based from islands. There were much different cultural impacts but they stayed traditionally on it.

  • @AnAwkwardBlue
    @AnAwkwardBlue 3 года назад +1430

    This looks like something out of a Dr Seuss book

    • @k.c.5426
      @k.c.5426 3 года назад +12

      😂😂😂

    • @Excaliburumbra801
      @Excaliburumbra801 3 года назад +9

      And it could fit in the Seusidistopian ambients he made somites!!

    • @waylonk2453
      @waylonk2453 3 года назад +7

      Yes, doesn't it?!

    • @benthomason3307
      @benthomason3307 3 года назад +1

      OMG I just typed the exact same comment before I saw this!

    • @owenflaherty7516
      @owenflaherty7516 3 года назад +3

      Look up the sousaphone lol

  • @beautyforashes2022
    @beautyforashes2022 2 года назад +59

    This was so achingly beautiful, like nothing I've ever before. Wonderful that such an instrument exists and bravo to this gentleman that is playing it so expertly.

    • @andyzhang7890
      @andyzhang7890 7 месяцев назад +2

      Beautiful, but sounds a bit like a mix between a trumpet, a sax, and French horn

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      Truly an instrument it takes several lifetimes to forget.

  • @circuslife888
    @circuslife888 Год назад +104

    I saw this instrument depicted in Roman War Paintings.
    My gosh! It's so grand. How are the notes even produced?
    The Ancients were truly MAGNIFICENT.

    • @thevalarauka101
      @thevalarauka101 7 месяцев назад +8

      the mechanism is probably the same as that of an ordinary valveless trumpet, albeit a bit lower in pitch due to its larger size

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      What I've always hated about ancient Roman paintings is you could never actually hear the instruments, they didn't have the technology to record sounds. Nice to see one alive and well.

  • @SedDelMar
    @SedDelMar 3 года назад +682

    This was both beautiful and powerful. I had no idea that such a simple instrument could emote with such range.
    My hat is off! This musician is a master.

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      Without beauty to enjoy it with, power is useless. Without power to act on it, beauty is useless. Without either power or beauty you have modern music.
      What do you think, is this horn more beautifully powerful or more powerfully beautiful?

  • @brownstonecustomcabinetry5309
    @brownstonecustomcabinetry5309 4 года назад +747

    This dude has really good control and tone. I don't hear a great sounding instrument I hear a great sounding player although I will say that instrument does have great range

    • @MajesticSkywhale
      @MajesticSkywhale 3 года назад +27

      you can replicate this instrument with a trumpet mouthpiece, some plastic tubing and a funnel. it's definitely the player, he's great

    • @trav1th3rabb1
      @trav1th3rabb1 3 года назад +4

      @@MajesticSkywhale ya i bet he’s a French horn player too

    • @thardingau
      @thardingau 3 года назад +2

      Any good brass player could do this.

    • @Sphagetti__
      @Sphagetti__ 3 года назад +10

      @@thardingau if by good you mean world-class then yes. If by good you mean your local band people then no chance.

    • @thardingau
      @thardingau 3 года назад +2

      @@Sphagetti__ I’m only an average brass player, and I could play this.

  • @dtpiers6136
    @dtpiers6136 Год назад +7

    Man, its always nice finding some gold in the RUclips rabbit hole

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      The composer: BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGG

  • @michaeldeierhoi4096
    @michaeldeierhoi4096 18 дней назад +1

    I would never have believed that anyone could get such range and beautiful sound our that long thin instrument!! Fascinating! This person surely is very talented on a classic brass instrument.

  • @kblskables2877
    @kblskables2877 3 года назад +294

    I feel like I must answer a call to aid someone somewhere.

    • @sullieduser6116
      @sullieduser6116 3 года назад +15

      GONDOR CALLS FOR AID!!!!

    • @tyj9175
      @tyj9175 3 года назад +10

      @@sullieduser6116 and rohan will answer!

    • @eurasiaacaci.-110
      @eurasiaacaci.-110 3 года назад +2

      Help the legioners of cannae

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      "No your honor when he said he must answer a call to aid someone he meant that if he were to hear the call it would give him aids, which is a serious diseases hence we must communicate only by horn. Common mistake made by the less horny among us, I'm happy to be here to set the record straight."

  • @strangeperson700
    @strangeperson700 3 года назад +677

    I heard the last two notes in a sci-fi horror movie trailer once.

    • @j.vinton4039
      @j.vinton4039 3 года назад +40

      War of the fucking worlds!

    • @strangeperson700
      @strangeperson700 3 года назад +13

      @@j.vinton4039 OMG Yassss!!! (^__^)

    • @ryanjones7681
      @ryanjones7681 3 года назад +3

      Silent hill

    • @lota13
      @lota13 3 года назад +19

      literally any trailer has those sounds.

    • @fiorellinobambi
      @fiorellinobambi 3 года назад +2

      True, It's "arrival" by denis villeneuve

  • @Reblwitoutacause
    @Reblwitoutacause 3 месяца назад +4

    Yiu knew what it was gonna be when you clicked, and you werent disappointed. Feckin epic.

  • @nathanjasper512
    @nathanjasper512 2 года назад +4

    Finally a compact trumpet I can travel with.

  • @VoicesofMusic
    @VoicesofMusic 4 года назад +1369

    Awesome

  • @giuseppesalvo5755
    @giuseppesalvo5755 3 года назад +158

    It's brutal and solemn at the same time

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      Yet with a notable absence of cheer for such a festive instrument. How come?

  • @Funckle73
    @Funckle73 2 года назад +8

    The man, the instrument, the sound is glorious🥰

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      Truly man hath no sweeteer sound than BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGG

  • @carolpountney7627
    @carolpountney7627 26 дней назад +2

    Amazing….a beautiful sound!

  • @masa-qi8cx
    @masa-qi8cx 3 года назад +191

    Imagine hearing this during an eclipse.

    • @Fablins-kt9ti
      @Fablins-kt9ti 3 года назад +7

      Imagine hearing this during an apocalypse

    • @hermitmoth6118
      @hermitmoth6118 3 года назад +1

      Griff no...

    • @hermitmoth6118
      @hermitmoth6118 3 года назад

      Imagine hearing this ruclips.net/video/zSLsTf2TH-Y/видео.html during an eclipse!

    • @johnwickinyt3017
      @johnwickinyt3017 3 года назад

      @@hermitmoth6118 i would love to

    • @R204
      @R204 3 года назад

      I have an idea now.

  • @TIMOTHEVS
    @TIMOTHEVS 5 лет назад +547

    I can hear the legions marching!

    • @krisdood713
      @krisdood713 3 года назад +5

      i can hear the carnyx absolutely dominating over this weak little horn

    • @krisdood713
      @krisdood713 3 года назад

      @CipiRipi00 yes and there are 100 carnyces in a single line each 1,000 gaulish warriors B)

    • @krisdood713
      @krisdood713 3 года назад

      @CipiRipi00 ever heard of sword sheaths

    • @headdog
      @headdog 3 года назад

      Who’s marching in to war to the soundtrack from taxi driver?

    • @HO-bndk
      @HO-bndk 3 года назад

      @@krisdood713 They are effectively the same instruments - a long trumpet. The carnyx seems to have been a favoured trophy for the Romans though, along with torques and blonde scalps.

  • @carmenpaula3781
    @carmenpaula3781 3 месяца назад +3

    Que belleza de sonido, impactante!!!gracias por este regalo visual y sonoro y sí, digno de elfos😊

  • @uremailingalex
    @uremailingalex 2 года назад +4

    10 of these in unison plus an authentic Pompeiian drum line would be incredible!

  • @admiralbuttwallace8494
    @admiralbuttwallace8494 4 года назад +1442

    Jesus, this thing's almost as haunting as the carnyx. Although i'm sure part of this has to do with the acoustics of the room.

    • @Adrian-zc1iz
      @Adrian-zc1iz 3 года назад +61

      Nah the carnyx is way more haunting

    • @krisdood713
      @krisdood713 3 года назад +5

      @@Adrian-zc1iz yep

    • @QockNobblr
      @QockNobblr 3 года назад +68

      They need to play the carnyx with more haunting beauty. The carnyx obviously has the capability of making hauntingly beautiful sounds, but all I've heard people play was warbling, and an occasional moment of beautiful harmonic tones, but mostly god awful warbly screeches. Like you want the enemy to feel like it's the horns of the afterlife serenading them into the afterlife in a terrifying realization of the sounds of death itself; not make the enemy hungry cuz they think there's a goddamn chicken being choked to death.

    • @ReeferSmoker
      @ReeferSmoker 3 года назад +14

      @@QockNobblr Probably because the players weren't just playing random noises almost every carnyx clip online is a part of a full song

    • @rainbenkennaz6173
      @rainbenkennaz6173 3 года назад +20

      @@Adrian-zc1iz bruh yall never heard the aztec screaming whistle and it shows

  • @usssanjacinto1
    @usssanjacinto1 3 года назад +865

    Imagine hearing 30,000 of these before battle.

    • @rarebreed4512
      @rarebreed4512 3 года назад +12

      the movies are real!

    • @henryrollins9177
      @henryrollins9177 3 года назад +68

      30.000?

    • @mitchc552
      @mitchc552 3 года назад +52

      Do you think every troop carried on of these ?

    • @iplaywithrocksforfun
      @iplaywithrocksforfun 3 года назад +37

      They might have had more like 300

    • @Daylon91
      @Daylon91 3 года назад +38

      Lmao if they had an army of 4-8 million MAYBE there would be 30,000 trumpeters

  • @user-od3mt6lq7f
    @user-od3mt6lq7f 3 месяца назад +2

    Beautiful. Thanks for posting

  • @kyo.u
    @kyo.u 2 года назад +38

    알 수 없는 알고리즘이 날 여기로 데려왔지만 멋진 연주라는 사실은 변함 없다.

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      알 수 없는 알고리즘이 날 여기로 데려왔지만 .

  • @sugarfoot84
    @sugarfoot84 3 года назад +57

    There’s something so majestic and regal about this.

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      The only thing more majestic is literal majesty.

  • @SMARTCATCH2010
    @SMARTCATCH2010 3 года назад +610

    Who else got goosebumps after hearing this sound for the first time! 😳

  • @osoio
    @osoio 2 года назад +15

    Maravilhoso. Obrigado, Abraham.
    Abraços do Brasil.

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      Abraço do BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGG

  • @nigel900
    @nigel900 3 месяца назад +2

    Hauntingly beautiful… 👍🏻

  • @TheConfusername
    @TheConfusername 3 года назад +564

    So this is what a C-clef sounds like.

  • @Gilmaris
    @Gilmaris 5 лет назад +156

    A fantastic, raw sound. Really something modern composers should consider.

    • @Fablins-kt9ti
      @Fablins-kt9ti 3 года назад +9

      RIP composing for an instrument that only one guy in the world owns and knows how to play.

    • @Gilmaris
      @Gilmaris 3 года назад +10

      @@Fablins-kt9ti Creating this instrument is no more difficult than any other brass instrument. And the technique in playing it is the same as well.

    • @JasonMcChristian
      @JasonMcChristian 2 года назад +1

      We will write for it if more folks learn it.

    • @FVmike
      @FVmike 2 года назад +1

      @@JasonMcChristian horn players could do it - it sounds like the same harmonic series as the open F horn

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      Composing for this is like choosing between rex and wolfie for the name of a dog. (those are the only choices.)

  • @janviljoen7001
    @janviljoen7001 Месяц назад +2

    When Quintus Arrius the consul received his banner from Caesar Tiberius in the movie Ben Hur, there was a whole contingent of Cornu players with leopard skin, quite impressive.

  • @josueantonio3457
    @josueantonio3457 3 месяца назад +2

    Nem imaginava que este instrumento pudesse existir!
    Som magnífico!!!!

  • @scottpreston5074
    @scottpreston5074 3 года назад +126

    Finally, someone who can play this ancient instrument. The music must have been interesting and complex, just like Rome itself.

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      >The music must have been interesting and complex, just like Rome itself.
      "There is no evidence Rome ever existed."
      "So why do all roads lead to Rome?"
      "Maybe someone will build a city there eventually or something, anyway the point is there has never ever been anything there."

  • @zrusit9640
    @zrusit9640 5 лет назад +595

    Gracchus, something more cheerful!

  • @ubermo1182
    @ubermo1182 Месяц назад +2

    Okay, as a former trombonist and period instrument performer, I love this. Hella cool!

  • @FoxyfloofJumps
    @FoxyfloofJumps 7 месяцев назад +2

    Lovely tone and stability of pitch.

  • @jamesberwick2210
    @jamesberwick2210 3 года назад +119

    In high school, I played the French Horn. For one Concert, where we formed a Chamber Orchestra and played before a room full of the local symphony orchestra members, their conductor and local supporters, I had a week to learn the English Horn and play without valves. We managed to make it work, even a horn solo. I never tried that again, it really takes talent to work you mouth that hard through several songs.

    • @jamesberwick2210
      @jamesberwick2210 3 года назад +8

      @@rikatai1931 It's all done with your lips and controlling the sound. I learned to keep a horn or trumpet tuned by using my lips, to vary the sound slightly. My music teacher then had me do one for a concert we put on at the local elementary school, using a length of garden hose, a tin bell the machine shop teacher made, and a lot of practice, I showed kids that just about anything could make music. After that they pulled the concert using an English horn, almost the same as the Roman horn, no valves. It took some learning and experimenting to get all the notes, but for one performance, we made it.

    • @karlpoppins
      @karlpoppins 3 года назад +3

      @@jamesberwick2210 Not sure how you transfered from a brass instrument to a woodwind within a week... unless you're talking about an English variant of the French horn? Some historical instrument, perhaps?

    • @jamesberwick2210
      @jamesberwick2210 3 года назад +3

      @@karlpoppins I was a tried and true brass man, started on trumpet, we had too many in band by my sophomore year, so my music teacher converted me to French Horn, that's the horn that has a big bell, you see them playing with a hand in side, to Mute the sound, has a mile or so of brass tube. They play similar to the trumpet, so conversion was easy. The difference between the French horn and English Horn, less tubing in the English horn and no valves. It's all done with changes in you lips and how you blow into the horn. That took me about a week to learn the one piece we played on it. I enjoyed the horn more than trumpet, softer sound, and more range.

    • @karlpoppins
      @karlpoppins 3 года назад +2

      @@jamesberwick2210 I know my orchestra well enough to know that an English horn is essentially an alto oboe and has very little in common with the French horn or any other brass instrument. I googled for a brass instrument with that name (perhaps something even more niche than the likes of euphonium and souzaphone) but I have yet to find any results. It seems to me the instrument you're referring to is the natural horn, which is the technological predecessor to the modern French horn.

    • @jamesberwick2210
      @jamesberwick2210 3 года назад +2

      @@karlpoppins I remembered it as being called an English Horn, but looking it up they refer to it as a Natural Horn. No valves, it originated back some where about the time of Back or earlier. It was popular with a small group, chamber orchestra, providing music for confined spaces and using violins, viola, cello and a horn.
      sorry for the confusion as it[s been over fifty years ago when I played music.

  • @GorgonDrageil
    @GorgonDrageil 3 года назад +85

    It has impressive range. Like going down into lower registers.

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      composer: lower.
      player: okay I'll try.
      composer: lower.
      player: this is as low as I go
      composer: lower.
      player: BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGG.
      composer: Thank you that is the effect we are going for here.

  • @dukecity7688
    @dukecity7688 3 месяца назад +1

    I was transported to a time and far away place. Thank you very much.

  • @JohnDoe-oo9ll
    @JohnDoe-oo9ll 2 года назад +3

    What an artistic accompaniment of spacial cinematography. Very suiting and even enhances the performance.

  • @riabreed011
    @riabreed011 4 года назад +74

    extraordinary! The sound of the instrument is excellent, but the player’s technique is outstanding

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      The composer: BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGG

  • @SecularDarwinism
    @SecularDarwinism 3 года назад +40

    I want this guy to wake me up like that every day. That is my goal, that is the endgame

    • @OffGridInvestor
      @OffGridInvestor 3 года назад +1

      Going to have to make do with the neighbors lawnmower bro....

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      Rumor has it this sound is the last sound someone ever hears. Source of the rumor: the guy playing it.

  • @ChuckD59
    @ChuckD59 2 месяца назад +1

    My first hear of something like this (and I played trumpet and baritone all through high school, around about the time these were all the rage)
    A gorgeous sound, and functions not unlike a bugle.

  • @elianaaparecidasantos3348
    @elianaaparecidasantos3348 3 месяца назад +2

    Mui encantador e mágico.
    Thank you

  • @Beccati.sto.trapezio
    @Beccati.sto.trapezio 3 года назад +65

    Is so strange to hear a sound "from" the past,amazing

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад +1

      Once you've heard the sweet sound of BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGG

  • @malykoth
    @malykoth 3 года назад +177

    If I was crazy-wealthy, I'd use this to summon my servants to me when I'm in a distant part of the manor.

    • @marko7552
      @marko7552 3 года назад +23

      too much work, i would have a servant do that for me instead

    • @binhobrasileiro
      @binhobrasileiro 3 года назад +3

      @@marko7552 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @LordCasezors117
      @LordCasezors117 3 года назад +1

      @@marko7552 LMFAO

    • @janaterbio8010
      @janaterbio8010 3 года назад +6

      I'd use it to make a dramatic entrance and exit every time I leave or return home

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      The poet: my manor is so small there are no distant parts, and my heart is so big my lady is never distant.
      The lady: will you let me in already I've been standing here for an hour?
      The composer: BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGG.

  • @riccardo50001
    @riccardo50001 3 месяца назад +1

    I've never seen such a strange instrument and the music is haunting with an incredible range!!

  • @mr.mushroomman8521
    @mr.mushroomman8521 2 месяца назад +1

    How is this even possible!? So incredible! Thank you for sharing this with us! :D

  • @pedrocampinopt
    @pedrocampinopt 3 года назад +24

    I'm amazed how versatile this instrument is, having such an old design, and also what a good musician who can make these sounds without mechanical aid from the instrument

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад

      The sweet melody comes from the gentle interplay between note and BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGG

  • @nickshryock7470
    @nickshryock7470 3 года назад +10

    Beautiful tone, dramatic expression and finely tuned just intervals. A real treat to hear.

  • @Vikingr4Jesus5919
    @Vikingr4Jesus5919 2 месяца назад +3

    Today: "Wow, that's impressive!"
    Antique Europe: "Why the boss music?"

  • @fabiolamadonna5277
    @fabiolamadonna5277 15 дней назад +1

    SAGRADA ROMA,CHAMADA PRA GUERRA JÚLIO CESAR , MAJESTADE, CÔNSUL, IMPERADOR 😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

  • @lazerbeamlightningstorm5844
    @lazerbeamlightningstorm5844 3 года назад +29

    Im gonna replace my alarm clock with this

  • @silviadelvalle3947
    @silviadelvalle3947 3 года назад +15

    Emocionante.Me transporta a un lugar y tiempo desconocido.Instrumento musical fascinante.Gracias.

  • @psterud
    @psterud 2 года назад +2

    Incredible range on that thing.

  • @theshypersistence
    @theshypersistence 2 года назад +4

    Was not expecting that sound! Gave me chills like I was about to go into battle 😅

  • @albertodelpuerto430
    @albertodelpuerto430 3 года назад +8

    Qué máquina! Sin pistones, todo con armónicos naturales del propio instrumento. Bravo!!!

  • @cpegg5840
    @cpegg5840 4 года назад +173

    0:10 Founding of Rome
    0:14 The Roman Kingdom forms
    0:25 Roman expansion in Italy
    0:35 Roman Republic forms
    0:42 Roman conquests under Caesar
    0:47 The Roman Empire is founded
    0:48-1:00 Roman/Byzantine era
    1:08 Battle of Manzikert
    1:11 The reign of the Komnenoi
    1:14 Fourth Crusade
    1:17 Reconquest of 1261
    1:21 Fall of Constantinople
    1:25 1461 Fall of Trebizond; the final death knell of the Romans

    • @msans0494
      @msans0494 3 года назад +1

      Wow

    • @keyosuke
      @keyosuke 3 года назад +4

      This may be the funniest comment in history.

    • @italia8705
      @italia8705 3 года назад

      lol... mi fa ridere da morire del punto 'final death of romans' 1:25

    • @rubenceriani9696
      @rubenceriani9696 3 года назад

      @@italia8705 roma per sempre

    • @NightOwl1515
      @NightOwl1515 3 года назад +2

      The Romans did not go out with a bang or a whimper. They went out with a fart.

  • @BW-fe8dq
    @BW-fe8dq 2 года назад +1

    This aggravated my normally calm cat to a surprising extent.

  • @katiobrien7854
    @katiobrien7854 3 месяца назад +1

    How haunting. Wonderful! Thank you.

  • @sethfoulk6990
    @sethfoulk6990 3 года назад +39

    (A trumpet player myself) THAT is an amazing instrument! Pretty much a valueless trumpet and a slideless trombone and a French horn all in one! I bet it's really hard to bend the notes with it! He has really good tone quality!

  • @bergerfonkoenig6997
    @bergerfonkoenig6997 3 года назад +4

    What an Instrument !!! What a Sound !!! From the times of the ancient Pompeii !!!... BfK. 📯⭐📯⭐📯⭐📯⭐📯⭐📯

  • @yamilethcordero7205
    @yamilethcordero7205 3 месяца назад +1

    Impresionante 🎉❤

  • @violainesoublette9333
    @violainesoublette9333 3 месяца назад +1

    Que increible sonido tiene ese instrumento! Maravilloso!

  • @stephaniecarrow4898
    @stephaniecarrow4898 3 года назад +3

    What a stirring, haunting sound. And to achieve all that without keys, just by changes in breath ~ amazing.

  • @ChainsTheChef888
    @ChainsTheChef888 3 года назад +9

    This what you hear at the end of a war movie when the war has finished and you see stuff on fire along with a silent destroyed city and some remaining soldiers paying honors resting as a group and giving thanks that it's over now, such a wonderful instrument this is

  • @Chick3nScr4tch
    @Chick3nScr4tch 2 года назад +1

    Sent a chill down my spine!

  • @kilo3989
    @kilo3989 2 года назад +5

    I'm a trombone player, so I know exactly how hard it is to be hitting all those partials as accurately as he is.
    That doesn't stop me from wanting one of these, though.

    • @thevoiceharmonic
      @thevoiceharmonic 7 месяцев назад

      I can find 17 notes on my Bass Bugle. I can transpose tunes into at least 3 keys, sometimes to dodge the strong harmonics that can make some notes almost impossible to play. Boogie woogie bugle boy from company B ruclips.net/video/3NDws2ATZnY/видео.htmlsi=glO9RWBmMNifKt88

  • @ICGedye
    @ICGedye 4 года назад +8

    I googled this instrument after struggling with its name in a crossword! What an amazing tonal range, and a terrific demonstration, wow.

  • @tryhardfinessedyou
    @tryhardfinessedyou 3 года назад +12

    Impressive is the range from a single horn.

  • @AngelCatBaby
    @AngelCatBaby 2 месяца назад +1

    Amazing horn, makes me wonder what ancient instruments would have sounded and been like together…..something that we will never see, because, just there isn’t anyone that can play them well enough. I bet there were a lot of these heralding the emperors and various ruler’s presence down along the paved roads. 👍❤️🙏🏼🎵

  • @macsnafu
    @macsnafu 2 года назад +2

    I've seen pictures of these, but never heard one played--until now. Thanks! It's a lot like early valveless trumpets.

  • @headly21
    @headly21 3 года назад +4

    Thank you, RUclips algorithm, for throwing this in to my constant stream of Star Wars and lightsaber videos.

  • @theonlybuzz1969
    @theonlybuzz1969 3 года назад +7

    Wow, I would love to have heard 20 or more of musicians playing these Horns for any announcements ! Now that’s what I would have called bitchin and put shivers down every single person’s spine. Even the emperor’s!

  • @blackfootelite2800
    @blackfootelite2800 2 месяца назад +1

    Can you imagine the terror this provoked. Amazing

  • @rudolvonstroheim3898
    @rudolvonstroheim3898 3 года назад +17

    He's playing before a large audience of ghosts.

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад +1

      Afterward he'll take her to BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGGer King.

    • @rudolvonstroheim3898
      @rudolvonstroheim3898 3 месяца назад

      ​@@robertviragh6527The notification from this reply brought me back to this video and I have no recollection of ever seeing this before.

  • @thomasmiller4642
    @thomasmiller4642 3 года назад +7

    This is awesome! I’ve never seen one of these before. He plays this instrument beautifully!

  • @mariarosagomez4385
    @mariarosagomez4385 3 месяца назад +3

    Impresionante, bellísimo sonido

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 3 месяца назад +1

      Senza doubto. That's italian, right? Meh, close enough.

  • @Eidolon1andOnly
    @Eidolon1andOnly 2 года назад +4

    Amazing skill to play such an instrument. Thanks for sharing.

  • @thechuckinator
    @thechuckinator 3 года назад +20

    "Come to longhorn steakhouse, where you can eat steak, and this guy will play his horn 5 feet from you the entire time"

  • @fernandocavalarianopatriota
    @fernandocavalarianopatriota 3 года назад +18

    Que som lindo ! Bravo ! Majestoso e imponente !

  • @imok3466
    @imok3466 2 года назад +1

    Beautiful and ominous at the same time

  • @chrisjones-rd8it
    @chrisjones-rd8it 2 года назад +1

    Spectacular! !!!!