Aulos from ancient Greek and Roman times music by Max Brumberg

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

Комментарии • 287

  • @howdelydoo
    @howdelydoo Год назад +565

    The story of Athena creating this instrument to mimic the cries of the Gorgon sisters after Medusa's murder sounds completely valid after listening to just the first 4 seconds of this beautiful flute. It truly sounds like a haunted cry of misery but in a beautiful way

    • @khaledkamelali1039
      @khaledkamelali1039 Год назад +7

      Athena dont creating this instrument , Originating from ancient Egyptians and is called Egyptian memet

    • @dylanc9174
      @dylanc9174 Год назад +33

      ​@@khaledkamelali1039 Tell that to Greeks 3000 years ago.

    • @dalexi9266
      @dalexi9266 Год назад +8

      @@dylanc9174Tell that to the Egyptians 5,500 years ago.

    • @carlag.garcia4332
      @carlag.garcia4332 Год назад +2

      I agree!!!

    • @ukrainianwarship4149
      @ukrainianwarship4149 Год назад

      ​@@dalexi9266tell that to Ukrainians before dinasours!

  • @CarlErikSimonsen
    @CarlErikSimonsen 4 года назад +524

    The dissonance at the start is crazy hypnotic!

    • @maxbrumbergflutes
      @maxbrumbergflutes  3 года назад +50

      The double reeds enable perfectly to play with dissonances, crazy possibilities!

    • @vulpes7079
      @vulpes7079 3 года назад +17

      It makes me think of one of those 1980s dystopian films. I feel like this soundtrack would have been on a trailer for the 1984 movie, or the movie itself

    • @aleksacerovic6586
      @aleksacerovic6586 2 года назад +13

      There are some people that think this instrument was for hipnosis, and some goes even further and say that is the origin of ,,sirens"

    • @GeorgeTropicana
      @GeorgeTropicana 2 года назад +3

      @@vulpes7079 100% sounds like an instrument that would be used for a movie soundtrack

    • @xeixei3893
      @xeixei3893 2 года назад +3

      just before a battle to scare the ennemy

  • @simonkemfors
    @simonkemfors Год назад +83

    I love hearing ancient instruments played. In one way, it is a bridge to their experiences, to their world. On the other hand, it is a reminder of how far away they are. We are so often told that our society is based on theirs that you can sometimes forget just how foreign classical Athens would have been if you could visit

  • @yoshiworld4378
    @yoshiworld4378 Год назад +109

    Incredible circular breathing! 👏

  • @ivayloivanov4735
    @ivayloivanov4735 2 года назад +359

    Damn, the ancients had some psychedelic af music

    • @NikephorosAer54
      @NikephorosAer54 Год назад +15

      Yes and psychedelic music has ancient, foundαmental, basic, rythm and melody. A Greek friend, Demetrios.

    • @Sketch_Sesh
      @Sketch_Sesh 10 месяцев назад +11

      Was thinking the same thing! Crazy how similar it is to modern electronic trance psy music

    • @jamesandrews8698
      @jamesandrews8698 10 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@Sketch_Sesh i came to say the same thing, first thought was a synth and second an electric guitar. i guess there really isnt anything new under the sun lol

    • @achilleuspetreas3828
      @achilleuspetreas3828 5 месяцев назад +3

      You guys do realize that this dude made up the music, right? The instrument is the only thing ancient about this

    • @sub7se7en
      @sub7se7en 5 месяцев назад

      Back then it was just music.

  • @Krisz98
    @Krisz98 9 месяцев назад +14

    Hearing this is, so dreamy.
    You can imagine the massive grasslands, wind howling down, its sunny, its spring, you are in a formation, marching along with your fellows, prepairing mentaly for a day of battle.
    Truly awesome to live in a time that i can listen to these old tunes from trully a different time. Marvelous. Thank you!

  • @robertnunn1558
    @robertnunn1558 2 года назад +106

    Breathtaking!
    Just seeing the Aulos in ancient art you would never expect it to sound this.
    Amazing.

  • @buddhahoo1
    @buddhahoo1 3 года назад +202

    Have a little plaque depicting a greek girl playing this instrument. Purchased it at an art show (33 yrs ago) and today I find out what it was called and how it sounded. This was meant to be a blessing for me today. Thank you for playing it so lovely, and sharing.

    • @Basedlocation
      @Basedlocation 2 года назад +4

      I imagine a formation of spartans marching to thermopalye while one of them plays this

  • @madman026
    @madman026 2 года назад +14

    its just amazing that i am listening to something that might have been herd 2200 years ago

  • @dominikoravec496
    @dominikoravec496 3 года назад +95

    Hearing this in the battlefield before the battle, I would run as fast as I could.

    • @maxbrumbergflutes
      @maxbrumbergflutes  3 года назад +35

      actually the Aulos was used for marching into the battle though the rythm patterns and melodies were probably very different

    • @allegoricalstatue
      @allegoricalstatue 3 года назад +1

      Towards the source of that rad music!

  • @bow_wow_wow
    @bow_wow_wow Год назад +14

    This was unexpectedly incredible. It's like an out of body experience. How wonderful and beautiful this is

  • @cor.ben_4737
    @cor.ben_4737 4 года назад +93

    Why is the sound so haunting and magnetic?

    • @fernwehn5925
      @fernwehn5925 4 года назад +31

      I came here because I read Aristotle say that the sound of the flute only incited passions, and was therefore no good. It struck me as quite strange, for my mind wandered to the modern flute, which is not, by any measure, a "rough instrument". Now I have my answer.

    • @maxbrumbergflutes
      @maxbrumbergflutes  4 года назад +31

      Because it is so ancient... :-)

    • @umutalandag6853
      @umutalandag6853 4 года назад +9

      @Dope Hope Aristotle was a philosopher and in greek and western philosophy passion goes against reason and is seen as a bad thing since in ancient times reason meant freedom and passion was seen as a prison of the mind.
      I think this is why..

    • @umutalandag6853
      @umutalandag6853 4 года назад +7

      @Dope Hope Yeah maybe in some but he was greek and they litteraly had Apollo, the god of music so idk

    • @SonofSethoitae
      @SonofSethoitae 3 года назад +5

      @@umutalandag6853 Keep in mind that Aristotle wasn't opposed to _all_ music, he just believed that some types of music were better than others. The same way that he privileged tragedy over comedy in theatre, for example.

  • @joeltrincherini6977
    @joeltrincherini6977 5 лет назад +60

    When old music and contemporary meet each other. When listening, I could not say when this got written! Congrats! Impressive!

    • @maxbrumbergflutes
      @maxbrumbergflutes  5 лет назад +14

      Joel Trincherini thank you very much, I felt so deeply touched when I first heard the Aulos played by Callum Armstrong, I had to get deeper into it.

  • @keyosuke
    @keyosuke 4 года назад +124

    I like it, it does sound haunting, and it is something being figured out from scratch, but I have a theory that the musicians of its day probably plated many more notes much faster, as is the case with an expert launeddas or alghoza player, but it is very beautiful played as slowly as everyone in the music archaeology scene seems to play it.

    • @maxbrumbergflutes
      @maxbrumbergflutes  4 года назад +54

      keyosuke wait a few more months/years and we are going to progress in playing. Callum Armstrong plays some crazy fast hypnotizing patterns. Imagine those ancient players started when they were children and played probably a lot there life long, they must have been capable of doing so much more finer and virtuous playing.

    • @keyosuke
      @keyosuke 4 года назад +8

      @@maxbrumbergflutes I was also thinking it might just be a matter of time and skill, but as an audience member, there is no way to tell when the musician is where they're aiming to be. I plan to pick this up and join you in restoring this natural art, as I'm already practicing with an alghoza. The son of the legendary Khamiso Khan is offering lessons on Zoom, as a matter of fact. -Joe Kennedy

    • @PietroBranca
      @PietroBranca 3 года назад +4

      @@maxbrumbergflutes Check out Luigi Lai playing Launeddas, and instruments so ancient (probably invented before the bronze age) that is entirely made of reeds and beeswax
      www.alinari.it/it/dettaglio/CAL-F-009069-0000
      To become a good player of launeddas one needs to start playing it since a young age. You are doing a "miracle" there, take your time and keep up your fantastic job!

    • @sohara....
      @sohara.... 3 года назад +2

      Yes: a miracle 😁
      Thank you Max Brumberg for bringing us this wonderful experience.
      *

    • @hellomate639
      @hellomate639 3 года назад +1

      @@maxbrumbergflutes Yes, but now imagine those players, and then imagine those players with human visionary creativity, trying to push the envelope of what their instrument could be.

  • @francescapoteet5481
    @francescapoteet5481 3 года назад +27

    Well, I was researching the Greek muses and Euterpe was the Muse of Flute playing, most often portrayed with an aulos. I now can imagine Greek theater and orations with this perfect haunting accompaniment.

    • @polyglotpoet
      @polyglotpoet 2 года назад +1

      I don't think Greek orators had musical accompaniment, did they? It would go against the aetiology for the invention of the instrument.

    • @georgekosko5124
      @georgekosko5124 10 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@polyglotpoetI guess that with "orators" he means poets, like the ones who sang Iliad or the Odyssey.

  • @kilonovaplays
    @kilonovaplays 3 года назад +15

    I feel like I'm getting hypnotized.

  • @gdmcgill
    @gdmcgill Год назад +14

    Amazing talent! The pitch bending, circular breathing, interesting and beautiful composition....everything is extremely impressive!

  • @Qualian1207
    @Qualian1207 9 месяцев назад +1

    You play beautifully Max. From one soul to another soul, from the same source…

  • @nkdoe6501
    @nkdoe6501 2 года назад +54

    Not gonna say "Wow, so cool keeping the culture alive and that". That's obvious shit. I'm on a total shroom trip right now and you are the best company. Gosh........I wanna learn to do that...I think I have broken my hands applauding to you.

    • @sowhat...
      @sowhat... 2 года назад

      You think this is shit? Why is everyone liking it here? Let's what you gotta say off the shroom trip.

    • @BlackLotusVisualArchive
      @BlackLotusVisualArchive 2 года назад +13

      @@sowhat... You're misreading him. He's not saying the music is shit. He's saying he enjoys it. You're being obtuse

    • @BMarie774
      @BMarie774 Год назад +6

      Can’t imagine *EXPERIENCING* that dissonance at the start while tripping.

  • @financialflex9221
    @financialflex9221 Год назад +2

    Just read Gates of Fire and Pressfield mentions the aulos multiple times in reference to the battlefield. The aulos helped keep a rhythmic cadence so the phalanx could move forward in unison. His narration of battle in that book is so vivid and moving. I couldn't imagine that haunting drone above the din of steel and death. Truly captivating.

  • @brianedwards7142
    @brianedwards7142 2 года назад +28

    Hearing these ancient instruments makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Like seeing a ghost.

  • @flourbvoy1269
    @flourbvoy1269 3 года назад +29

    Thank you for making your performance avaiable to us. This has been a new and exciting experience for me.

    • @maxbrumbergflutes
      @maxbrumbergflutes  3 года назад +3

      I am very happy you like it, this is such an exiting experience for me too, keep updated with my later videos, it is so much development happening here since we all are so new in bringing back to the world this amazing instrument

  • @tHeWasTeDYouTh
    @tHeWasTeDYouTh 4 года назад +95

    So when Leonidas and his 300 bodyguards went on a stroll they had an aulos?
    nice

    • @robertcorbell1006
      @robertcorbell1006 4 года назад +18

      More than just one guy. Three slaves for every warrior, with many playing Dorian modal marching pieces on these. Others with war drums and cymbals. Imagine a 900-man marching band following them around. Plus they carried all the supplies, looked after the armor, sharpened weapons, oiled and massaged them before and after battle, did up their long hair (in accordance with the Law of Lycurgus which dictated it for all graduated warriors to lift a middle finger to their bald Argive enemies), and acted as skirmishers/cover-fire with javelins and slings (projectile weapons were "unmanly" for Spartan warriors, but fine for the slave bearers).

    • @robertcorbell1006
      @robertcorbell1006 4 года назад +9

      There was also 700 Thespians and 1000 Corinthians with twice as many slaves acting as musicians and skirmishers/slingers. Plus the local militia who had 193 warriors and over 1200 slaves who dismissed theirs almost immediately once they saw the number of Persians. The Thebans arrived with the Sacred Band and no slaves, but defected almost at once to the Persians in order to survive. The actual estimates place the actual number of men who fought at Thermopylae Pass at around anywhere from 10000 to 12000 until the Spartans dismissed any unwilling to die halfway into the battle. Even that left 4000 to 7000. Another thing about the helots, or Ancient Greek slaves across the city-states is that they also did all the cooking for an army. Typically, large pots filled with a simple-but-hearty pottage of lentils or white navy beans refried in fatback or olive oil. Or it could be stewed with blood sausage. Sometimes also dried fruit and a bit of salt for flavoring, with or without garlic and/or fresh ginger.

    • @malvasia17
      @malvasia17 3 года назад +5

      @@robertcorbell1006 you said almost everything about the residents of laconic land before .One more thing, the helots were not private slaves bit public! They belong to public!

    • @robertcorbell1006
      @robertcorbell1006 3 года назад +2

      @@malvasia17 Yes. They were much like later Russian serfs in that they acted more in a peasant role or corvee role for the public, but were treated as slaves and subject solely to the whims of their ruler. They lacked any rights and could be treated by members of the Spartitiate class with the utmost cruelty (and they were) with complete impunity. It was much like the way field and quarry slaves were treated in Ancient Egypt. For the public, in that, they acted as a class lower than free farmers but treated as slaves. Of course, the house slaves were individually owned by the wealthiest strata (particularly the Pharaoh) as eunuchs and concubines. But that was seen as different.

  • @IndiaHaven
    @IndiaHaven 10 месяцев назад +8

    This guy is saving air in his mouth to push out as he breathes in more air. How? How?!!! Pure skill.

    • @holgermurcia7749
      @holgermurcia7749 10 месяцев назад +6

      Yeah awesome, it's called circular breathing.

    • @IndiaHaven
      @IndiaHaven 10 месяцев назад

      so cool thx!@@holgermurcia7749

    • @Hanfgurkenhasser
      @Hanfgurkenhasser 9 месяцев назад +5

      Surpised no one else mentioned that, there's no pauses for breathing in his performance which makes it sound even more mystical and out-of-this-world than it already is.

  • @SprayNpreyT
    @SprayNpreyT Год назад +1

    fuuuuuu the skill and capacity of the musician 10/10

  • @normancherry8732
    @normancherry8732 7 месяцев назад +1

    I'd love to be able to do that circular breathing technique, it makes such a difference!

  • @itaytal9337
    @itaytal9337 Год назад +1

    very high level harmoincs and special sound . you dont hear stuff like this speciael today day

  • @peddlercinematic7554
    @peddlercinematic7554 8 месяцев назад

    I first listened to this through a musical professor's introduction during a university lecture in Korea. This is so oddly yet so soothing.

  • @jesshuifry4342
    @jesshuifry4342 Год назад

    Ahhhhh je vous ai découvert dans le reportage de PaJu et je suis... subjugué. Sublime.
    Merci pour toute cette beauté, ce bel ouvrage, cette belle œuvre.

  • @SprayNpreyT
    @SprayNpreyT Год назад

    Watched 3 times in a row, kudos Max Brumberg!!

  • @sidahmedheros
    @sidahmedheros Год назад +2

    Allahuma Barek , May Allah Bless You Brother , The Aulos is Just Hypnotic , I Really Enjoyed it

  • @andyarken7906
    @andyarken7906 2 месяца назад

    Woop woop! That's the sound of the legion!

  • @thebubnas9992
    @thebubnas9992 9 месяцев назад

    WOW! Circular breathing while playing two instruments at the same time! That must take SO MUCH practice! Good job, and keep it up!

  • @BasicInfo111
    @BasicInfo111 Год назад

    Thank you for all the air you gave for this

  • @bluestripetiger
    @bluestripetiger 4 года назад +7

    The beginning sounds a little like warming up/tuning a bagpipe... =D It sounds like one pipe is lead and plays melody while the other keeps a drone, or in some instances provides a bass line though it doesnt seem to strictly follow the modern rules of harmony...more improvisatory in nature i think.

  • @ledman10
    @ledman10 3 года назад +2

    Whenever I get down and need a return to reality I listen to this song, thank you for the upload

  • @DrDitchpickle
    @DrDitchpickle 3 месяца назад

    What a beautiful piece of music! Your breathing technique is amazing

  • @byblispersephone2.094
    @byblispersephone2.094 3 года назад +5

    Haunting beautiful !

  • @mclovin8297
    @mclovin8297 2 года назад +5

    I would describe this instrument as the musical manifestation of malice.
    Exquisite performance!

    • @Nkmirrorverse
      @Nkmirrorverse 2 года назад

      Interesting. I thought chaos

    • @Angelo-z2i
      @Angelo-z2i Год назад +1

      In ancient Greek it was associated to irrationality and the unconscious, that's because you can't speak or sing while playing it

  • @jlouis4407
    @jlouis4407 11 месяцев назад +1

    This is so foreign to us with our cerebral society, this is pure feeling but spiritual as well

  • @maricarmenmenendezrodrigue267
    @maricarmenmenendezrodrigue267 4 месяца назад

    ¿Le habeis escuchado tocando el carnyx? ¡Expectacular! Lo vi en un concierto en La Coruña

  • @jadechan8673
    @jadechan8673 8 месяцев назад

    Fascinating. Thank you!

  • @georgevas2889
    @georgevas2889 Год назад

    Love this for many reasons, one of which is that it sounds quite similar to the intro to 'The Wizard' by Black Sabbath.
    Thanks for sharing!

  • @ventusastrea3850
    @ventusastrea3850 2 года назад +3

    I watched this video once and put it on one of my playlists and I kid you not I'm fuckin plagued by Greek ads for weeks now and I wondered why! It all makes sense! xD
    Ps. It is a cool instrument and I do enjoy the sound of it

  • @samanthabirdx
    @samanthabirdx 8 месяцев назад +1

    i just read that the aulos could cure gout in the hip and wanted to hear what it sounded like! i love it!

    • @maxbrumbergflutes
      @maxbrumbergflutes  3 месяца назад

      check out more videos on our aulos collective channel like this one here, you might be astonished how it can sound ruclips.net/video/EtYRaXeUpPU/видео.htmlsi=2bMnTDDXwcMxiUte

  • @captainwormburner
    @captainwormburner 4 года назад +15

    Ancient ambient music

  • @murmerjangle3016
    @murmerjangle3016 Год назад

    Great circular breathing. Wow!!

  • @sarker306
    @sarker306 3 года назад +5

    Hello, your playing makes me want to learn flute. This one has a lot of potentials! Subscribing.

  • @DonkeyPopsicle
    @DonkeyPopsicle 2 года назад +10

    Hans Zimmer is going to use this guy in the next Christopher Nolan movie

  • @maricarmenmenendezrodrigue267
    @maricarmenmenendezrodrigue267 4 месяца назад

    ¿Lo habéis escuchado tocando el carnyx? ¡Expectacular!

  • @Manu_007
    @Manu_007 2 года назад +1

    That sound is E P I C !

  • @quasarsphere
    @quasarsphere Год назад +1

    Very very awesome!
    It reminded me of the beginning of "Birth Of Liquid Plejades" by Tangerine Dream. Other bits of the piece reminded me of "Phaedra" also by Tangerine Dream.

    • @Pneumanon
      @Pneumanon Год назад +1

      Yes, a few moments made me think of Vangelis. Amazing stuff.

  • @AugsburgPilgrim
    @AugsburgPilgrim Год назад +1

    I need this instrument

  • @corenlavolpe6143
    @corenlavolpe6143 4 года назад +11

    This is great. I was doing some research for a story I'm writing and stumbled upon the Aulos when trying to figure out what instrument a musician character should play. I got curious to what it actually sounded like and here I am! Sounds ominous and spiritual, super awesome.

  • @musicmaker33428
    @musicmaker33428 3 года назад +1

    This is unexpectedly haunting

  • @organatron
    @organatron 4 месяца назад

    Fabulous circular breathing...

  • @coleomo
    @coleomo 4 года назад +8

    apparently this was played during battle / marching formations for soldiers to judge pace/intensity in Sparta. I wonder if thats true and what they would have played.

    • @Lotrfan99
      @Lotrfan99 4 года назад +6

      Theres actually another video of a Protosardinian Aulos and the player uses a much faster rhythm, which is what I assume many of the various Hellenic armies would have used. This is a good demonstration of the sound but rhythmically, there probably would have been a much greater diversity, especially when used for marching or military use or even in combination with other instruments of the time. I am also just blown away by how loud these things are.

    • @coleomo
      @coleomo 4 года назад +3

      @@Lotrfan99 cool thanks for the info! i too am blown away by how powerful the instrument sounds, I immediately recognized it from several movie soundtracks where its been used. I would have never imagined the instrument responsible for the noise would be this one.

    • @ambers5850
      @ambers5850 2 года назад +1

      pre-Lycurgus the Spartans only used martial songs in the Dorian mode. Not only were other styles discouraged, but punishable under law.

  • @simascelta
    @simascelta 4 года назад +4

    Magic music !

  • @lusissierdominic
    @lusissierdominic Месяц назад +1

    The Opening is very distressing. I could imagined the Hoplites leads the way in war with that flute and be galvanised

  • @laurasutherland2352
    @laurasutherland2352 2 года назад +1

    oh. my. god.
    I was wondering when you breathe, but I see it now.
    This is... wow.

  • @TheGerfalkon
    @TheGerfalkon 4 года назад +2

    this is awesome

  • @DanMoiMusicalInstruments
    @DanMoiMusicalInstruments 2 года назад +1

    Beautiful!
    😍

  • @lelemnz
    @lelemnz 10 месяцев назад +1

    For some reason my cat really enjoys it 😮

  • @justoantoniosierrapala1892
    @justoantoniosierrapala1892 4 года назад +2

    Impresionante Max

  • @zomaa777
    @zomaa777 6 месяцев назад

    Journey within tones as breathing in time ✨

  • @massinissaziriamazigh8122
    @massinissaziriamazigh8122 4 года назад +5

    Amazing ❤

  • @boy_nutella2360
    @boy_nutella2360 3 месяца назад +1

    beginning feels like the homelander music but for an ancient Greek who just saw their childhood friend speared by a Persian Immortal and is now about to pop off

  • @harfenspieler
    @harfenspieler 5 лет назад +3

    Amazing!

  • @davidmastikosacomposer
    @davidmastikosacomposer 3 года назад +1

    Awesome!

  • @Schmidt54
    @Schmidt54 Год назад +1

    btw I created an awesome pen and paper campaign around the aulos flute :) because I saw this video

  • @ΝίκοςΤζέλλος
    @ΝίκοςΤζέλλος Год назад +2

    This sounds like a bass bagpipe from the Greek islands. The difference is that they have a bag. Crazy breath, good job. Circular breathing?

  • @Schmidt54
    @Schmidt54 Год назад

    no wonder they marched those into battle, hot damn this is potent

  • @ΑττικόςτωνΑθηνών
    @ΑττικόςτωνΑθηνών Год назад +1

    Where can I get one of these instruments

  • @elenatroncone
    @elenatroncone 5 лет назад +1

    Yes! Amazing👍👋😊💖

  • @carnylaw5872
    @carnylaw5872 3 года назад +4

    That was awesome, I felt like I was transported back to the Middle Ages there for a second!

    • @taylordiclemente5163
      @taylordiclemente5163 3 года назад +1

      Older

    • @Miliworm_island
      @Miliworm_island 3 года назад +2

      My Latin class just roasted you, get owned

    • @orpheasnestos7444
      @orpheasnestos7444 2 года назад +2

      Unfortunately you got transported to the wrong era. Rewind to about 2.000 years before the Middle Ages.This is Ancient Greek but regardless….I know what you mean.

  • @boxsterchen6499
    @boxsterchen6499 3 года назад +5

    @Max Bromberg Flutes: Hi Max, Thank you for the beautiful performance. I have never heard aulos being played before. I play recorder and flute, and am wondering why there are more than 4 sound holes on each aulos. Are ther 6 or 7 holes on each aulos? What do the lower 2 or 3 holes do? Could they be played if you used both hands on only one aulos, in manners similar to a recorder or oboe? I also have Chinese bamboo transverse flute, and it too has extra holes at the lower end, but they seems to be decorative in nature.
    Thank you!
    Tai

    • @maxbrumbergflutes
      @maxbrumbergflutes  3 года назад +2

      Boxster Chen the additional holes on the Aulos were very probably used to be plugged to play in different tunings. On older Aulos like the Megara we found sliders to plug the lower tone holes. Once plugged it gives other harmonies. May be some of the holes were also used to be played two handed. See on my website for tunings and photos of the instruments.

    • @boxsterchen6499
      @boxsterchen6499 3 года назад

      @@maxbrumbergflutes Thank you for your help! Design and play of the aulos are now more clear with your descriptions and pictures. I will read Dr. Hager’s article next.
      As I look at the picture of your aulos, I can’t help but wonder if the tuning of a fourth apart between the two pipes reflected the natural sounds of pharynx (or any military) marching: left-right, hey-ho, heave-ho, etc. Just a bugles were used to direct cavalry movements, I wonder what tunes an aulete would play to direct the pharynx in battle. What would you play if you were the aulete during some of the legendary Greek battles?

    • @DickVerel
      @DickVerel Год назад

      Answer to everyone: The amazing sound is because it is no flute, but a shawm, played with a reed, much like a clarinet or bagpipe. Don't call it a flute!!

  • @Random-501st
    @Random-501st 2 года назад +4

    You’re missing the leather straps around the cheeks which were historically used by professional auletes, so the cheeks wouldn’t inflate that much. This way it was much easier to breathe out the air, you should give it a try :)

    • @maxbrumbergflutes
      @maxbrumbergflutes  2 года назад +4

      Indeed interesting. I tried already, but on the Louvre Aulos the Phobeia does not perform so well. On the older Aulos like the Pydna Aulos it is very interesting and working very well in fact. It permits to play much longer and the sound is more focused. I should upload a Pydna video at some point but I am worried my account would get blocked by youtube for explicit content lol

  • @Larry-fd5ew
    @Larry-fd5ew 3 года назад

    I love this

  • @hili467
    @hili467 4 года назад +13

    Great grieving gorgons; what a noise

  • @tinatheodoritsi2591
    @tinatheodoritsi2591 9 месяцев назад

    Devine!

  • @aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa790
    @aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa790 7 месяцев назад

    I used to have intrusive thoughts to the melody in the beginning. What the heck.

  • @ImuhMusician
    @ImuhMusician 2 месяца назад

    I can tell hes a circular breather. Im so jealous of that ability. Thats why he takes no breaks of silence between notes. If he does, its for the sound. Not because he ran out of breath. Which he never does if you think about it. Look up circular breathing.

    • @maxbrumbergflutes
      @maxbrumbergflutes  2 месяца назад

      I made a video on circular breathing on our aulos collective youtube channel ;-)

  • @stonedwizard0420
    @stonedwizard0420 Год назад +1

    Hello Max! I love the sound of the flutes! I was wondering, where did you play, exactly? I know France has some beautiful Roman ruins, and this place reminds me of them with its vaulted ceilings and old stonework.

  • @PSH123-m5y
    @PSH123-m5y Год назад

    Does anybody know where to get one of these? And if purchasing is too much of an issue are they hard to make?

  • @hillbillyhistorian1863
    @hillbillyhistorian1863 Год назад +1

    Hans Zimmer called. He wants these for the next Dune soundtrack.

  • @valross4886
    @valross4886 2 года назад

    This appears to be made of wood, but another youtube site says they were made of deer bone. Which bone? Would different bones have different pitches? Would there be delicate foreleg flutes and deeper rear leg flutes? So interesting.

    • @valross4886
      @valross4886 2 года назад +1

      big ox-bone basses?

    • @maxbrumbergflutes
      @maxbrumbergflutes  2 года назад +1

      They used reed, wood, metal and bone for auloi

    • @maxbrumbergflutes
      @maxbrumbergflutes  2 года назад +2

      It is not so easy to find the right bone size. Looks to me like only the back legs have the right shape. I am currently looking for a certain kind of cervidae that must have lived on that area and should have the right size for Pydna type Auloi

  • @CaenFilms
    @CaenFilms 2 года назад

    Can you play “the wizard” by Black Sabbath?

  • @deaBeidlSchuwida
    @deaBeidlSchuwida 2 года назад +1

    Thinking of the many peoples and tribes that used this Instrument which only narrowly managed to get their name recorded in history before dissappearing truly makes me sad.

  • @Jacksirrom
    @Jacksirrom 3 года назад

    This has definitely been in a few horror movies. Nice.

  • @InvertedFreeSolo
    @InvertedFreeSolo 2 года назад +4

    Fun fact: This is what they used to March to battle. Rival armies had to condition their troops so they wouldn't be scared to death lol. (probably not the same song)

  • @hamburgerdan101
    @hamburgerdan101 2 года назад

    This instrument has great tone and feel, much better than the bag pipes imo just wish someone could play it with more purpose in each note. Its seems really hard as you’re playing two flutes with reeds. Hopefully one day ill hear this in modern music.

  • @mikdan8813
    @mikdan8813 Год назад +1

    Wow, this did NOT sound how I expected it to.

  • @Orelio_Ceferino_de_Pamplona
    @Orelio_Ceferino_de_Pamplona Год назад

    Bruh the beginning had me thinking I was starring in a horror movie. 👀

  • @SacredDreamer
    @SacredDreamer 3 месяца назад

    I have been looking at paintings of Satyrs fauns, and Dionysus and this fat little flat face old dwarf - but with horses ears and tail and hoofs - Silenus... the only 1 of his kind, but called by Satyrs and Fauns "Poppa" (Grandfather)
    Anyway,, in this paintings,
    either the Centaurs are playing this instruments,, or the Fauns are ...
    i was imagining high pitched stuff 😆 (boy was i mistaken !

  • @xBUMSKIx
    @xBUMSKIx 2 года назад

    This could be a movie soundtrack

  • @DoubleMusician
    @DoubleMusician Год назад +7

    The unison sound at the beginning is similar to the sound of an "air danger" siren in Ukraine before the next Russian missile attack on Ukrainian cities and power plants. (The sirens sound several times every day. By the way, I am also writing this review to the sound of the siren. I am serious, in Poltava (where I'm now) was declared the highest level of missile danger 4 or 5 minutes ago).
    *_Your performance is GREAT! I love it!_*

  • @topologyrob
    @topologyrob 4 года назад +3

    I like

  • @bluestripetiger
    @bluestripetiger 4 года назад +1

    Are you mouthing 2 separate pipes at once or do they share a united mouthpiece?

    • @maxbrumbergflutes
      @maxbrumbergflutes  4 года назад +2

      bluestripetiger it is two separate pipes, check my website there is more information www.maxbrumbergflutes.eu

  • @oMegaEddy13
    @oMegaEddy13 Месяц назад

    I just realized he was circular breathing 😮

  • @Mojokiss
    @Mojokiss Год назад +1

    I dreamed of a goat man playing this instrument when i was 10. i'm 46 now and have found this instrument