The ancient Celtic Carnyx.
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2019
- For all you Celts... at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient - The carnyx was played at Carlos Nunez concert (by John Kenny I think) - bronze trumpet wind instrument of the Iron Age Celts, used between c. 200 BC and c. AD 200. I guess the bag pipes were scarier but I don't know. You judge.
This festival was awesome. Look it up. 
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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...
Same here.
That. Yes.
Copied
Same
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth...
De même
The Romans heard this hidden in the fog and said “yeah f’ck that, build a wall”
They right next second they shat in their pants or prepared for brutal battle while hearing the barbaric war cries of the enemy
@@poseidon3292 dont forget they conquered all the places they went to
@@yermanoh Of course they did Historically yes but don't forget I was talking about a feeling that every legionaire especially auxiliary and new recruits might had when they were hearing this haunting mysterious dark sound and the barbarian hordes war cries through the mist.. I never said or left a message they just shat in their pants and stayed freezed.. No they some of them pass through this but their centurions encouraged them and the more expert brothers in arms to fight who ever appears no matter was barbaric hordes or traitors of rome or phalanx or elephants or chariots with long spears or traitors of Rome itself. Roma Aeterna brother
@@poseidon3292 nice paragraph...have a good one
"maximus...
that sound came froma our side"
I have never heard anyone play a carnyx this way and it's super impressive
Fr! I was super impressed with this video and tried to look up more Celtic Carnyx videos but was disappointed because everyone else played it like some army boot camp music bullshit... so cheers to the instrument player for playing it this way
I feel like this is probably the way it was played more so than the marching band-y way it’s played in other videos.
This really is the only way it should be played
It sounds so cool. Reminds me a lot of a Shankh
@@LtCdrXanderreminds me of didge in certain areas
Props to the audience for being respectful as the dude played. Made it 10x better for the carnyx to be the only sound, as though we're all participating in the setup of an attack on Roman legionnaires in the fog.
Yes this is not something I'd expect of festival attendees
Random creeks was a good accidental touch. Feels like the soldiers were slowly creeping up their way to the enemy camp
They are probably conceding in fear and respect for what they are hearing.
They are all sitting there to watch a performance and also all look to be older than 40. I dont understand how acting like your supposed to for a performance like this is some kind of virtue. It's not like the guy is shredding the guitar and amping up the crowd like it's a rock concert.
And all the sound effects
this genuinely invokes a primal fear I have never felt in my life
I don’t like black people
If I was a Roman Soldier hearing that in the forest, that would be a genuine "Fuck this, I'm out" moment.
i had to listen 10 times to get rid of some of that fear and even after that, it still lingers a bit...
You nailed it with primal fear.
It doesn't invoke primal fear in me, but eerie curiosity.
Put yourself in a 17 year old Roman Legionnaire’s Caligae…being a in a foreign land covered in mist, a place they believed was solely inhabited by Giants and sea serpents and black magic worshippers and then hearing this. THIS.
I would thoroughly shit my tunic.
People act like those in the past are silly for being religious, it's like if you hear this in a foreign land that you know nothing of; you'd be praying to any God that will hear you for protection. And believing demons are real in a heartbeat.
It's literally game of thrones. It's the actual The Wall. They're the real life Free Folk. GRR Martin's whole thing is amping up real history.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoatexcept real history was still far more ridiculous and unbelievable. GRR Martin’s work’s don’t hold a candle to the average 10 year span in ancient Rome.
@@thebigenchilada678 As a writer I can tell you there's a good explanation for this. If our stories were as crazy as real life, nobody would believe us.
Imagine growing up in a small village that’s your entire world, and then you join the legion and get marched half way across the known world to a place shrouded in myth and mystery, and then while walking through a misty glade at the crack of dawn, you hear this sound.
I would shit my subligaculum.
They were gnarly people too. I think at some point in Boudica's rebellion several people are uhh.... de-skinned... can't remember if the Romans did it or the Celts. But none of them were particularly gentle.
Imagine opening the comments to a RUclips clip, and seeing the same comment being made for years and years... what a time to be alive.
Mars give me strength
Halfway around the known world? It's next to Italy.
The carnyx is called the mouthpiece of the Gods, and hearing those gorgeous haunting undertones that sound like ethereal voices descending from the sky, I’m not surprised… it’s simply otherworldly.
We need to put 10+ musicians to play this instrument at the same time. That would be wondrous.
I'm a composer: someone give me some money and I'll absolutely do that (oh cheeky plug I'm doing something similar in Manchester in November!!)
*F*QUACK** YOU, THAT WOULD BE A SPOOK-FEST TO SCARY FOR EVERYONE
This is why I want to make excess money
Add some drums in there too
Just Download the audio and lay the Same audio 10x with some space between the Timeline for the realism and you have it
Just imagine the Cesarian army marching deep into Gallia, in places never visited by Roman soldiers, and then hearing these sounds echoing in a misty valley, all around you, thus revealing that you are not alone. This image gives me shivers.
Yeah that must have been quite something 😳
@Thiago Andrade and when the first legionaries fall dead the centurions shout to lift the shileds and form the testudo. The soldiers are now into the darkness of their formation, trying to see from the gaps what is coming against them. They sweat and pant, praying their gods in terror, but all they can see is mist, grass, the faint shades of trees, while all of a sudden the valley around them echoes of war cryes and the clash of metal on metal.
They it starts raining rocks, then the biggest dogs you've ever seen are eating you. Not great.
the draugrs have come to play 😈
Gods speed to the lost legion….
As weird as it may seem , I find the sound of the Carnyx absolutely beautiful
Oh it is absolutely beautiful
If you go on Wikipedia for carnyx you will see an adio clip
This is not how it actually sounds. The clip on wiki is a reconstruction from an irish musician who made a original carnyx.
Me too. Its a sounds thats almost feels like i'm trying to remember something. And no fear just real curiosity to why this sounds so beautifull.
There's something very instinctual about this, creates a weird sort of primal fear. Awesome.
its probably hard wired into our DNA
Are you descended from the Romans? Cuz it’s probably a racial memory 🤣
imagine youre out with your buds, riding your horses through cold and misty plains and woods, looking for celts to kill, and you hear THIS rolling over the land. you dont know where its coming from, but its slowly getting louder. can you IMAGINE that feeling???
Oh man, I really thought and wrote the same thing
If I were a roman soldier, back in the day I would shit my pants...My skirt, or whatever I had to wear.
Yep, except I’m not looking for trouble. But I get the gist. Hearing guns go off around you but you can’t pinpoint where. You just know the gunshots are getting closer. I’d say that’s just as terrifying. Especially when you live in a city/town full of gang violence
Lol Romans=mobile fortress of invincible juggernaut warriors vs these posers playing with flutes. Yea I don't think they would min this crap.
@@bikerboy3k, it's amazing how many Romans are living in England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and the rest of the Celtic regions right now. 😏
Back in those time there were no highways, no cars, no planes, nothing really noisy. So those things would be heard from so far away!
lots of people don't understand these were used to relay messages and direct the battle
@@toomanyaccounts also fear, right ?
@@SpringNotes there was a psy ops role but they had multiple l uses for the celts. they were used in their rituals hence why they destroyed them rather then let them fall into the hands of others
Yeah, because *everyone knows* that cars and planes existing affects how far sound can travel! RUclips generation negative IQ!
It sounds like a monstrous elk call (I am not a hunter I am just vaguely familiar with animal calls)
I'm from Scotland and my family are mostly still in the Aberdeenshire region (North-East Scotland) where Celtics, thousands of years ago, would have lived. To see this piece of history in action sends chills down my spine.
The museum in Edinburgh has a real Celtic Carnyx in a display, unfortunately it is not in the greatest of shapes, but most of the pieces are still there. For anyone interested, its name is the Deskford Carnyx
Picts would bevthe preferred description of those from Kingdom of Fib northwards on east coast.
@@Sagalands The Picts came a little later. The Carnyx they found at Deskford was around AD 80 to 250, Picts were around in 685 until they were pushed out by rival tribes and viking invasions
@@imarkgw They were still picts! 70AD first excursions by Romans.
Im in Kingdom of Fib, 3 slabs not 200 yards from me! Venicones was tribe in area. The Vacomagi, Taexali were up that way!
Antoninus Pius died on 7 March AD 161 and shortly after, around AD 165, the Antonine Wall was abandoned.
The term picti was used to describe in late third century.
Vipoig was the king of picts around 300ad
Celts still live there today.
Serious question, why do some of you Scott's, Irish, Brits believe in the bible when it came from the middle east? If I were an Irishman I wouldn't be a catholic or a protestant
just gotta say the way this carynx is played is super impressive, the last bit is haunting. seems this was played august 2019, I dare say those who attended this live heard the trumpets of apocalypse. i keep returning to this video just to hear the last bit. incredible
It's "daresay" and you're definitely misunderstanding the meaning of "apocalypse" because you want to LARP as someone who is more intelligent than you actually are.
@@r0br33r Pot, meet kettle.
@@r0br33rCalm down
@@r0br33rYou're a turd human 💩 😂
The eerie timbre of the horn, with that supernatural wailing sound
Sounds of imminent death and sadness. Its cold and eerie. Sound of bloodbath coming 😢
Agreed!
You should hear the sound of hella Aztec death whistles going. It’s kinda like heavy rain on the ocean, except each raindrop is a scream and they come in waves
@@bayarea_pyro4159 true brother. Really bone chilling like scream of a tortured soul!
Not sadness, but glory, prowess & beauty in the art of combat. To have lived when my brothers & sisters crushed enemies to these melodies coursing through my body, what a rush
@@SpearOfLughh this is how I feel. The sound amps me up. Feels like I'm ready to defend my people
I'm always amazed at how it can go from high to super low pitch.
I don't think I've ever heard another instrument like that.
most modern brass instruments have comparable ranges
Bassoon
Uhh, pretty much any brass instrument?
@@podomuss yeah but a bassoon never made a roman soldier shit his trousers
@@lpadron13 speak for yourself
That deep tone gave me straight chills down my spine, made my eyes water
By far, the best performance of this instrument in a realistic manner
opened this vid + some others that matched the key in multiple tabs to see what it would sound like and i am now assured there is no way a roman legionnaire did not shit their pants at least one (1) time at this
I have come to the same conclusion
can you record it? wanna hear that so baaaddd
Maybe thats why they wore tunics
Except that the romans utterly thrashed the celts and Gauls. Like it wasn’t even close. Caesar and his legions alone utterly smashed them when they were completely outnumbered. The romans had nothing to fear.
@@spiderknight9893 nah ceaser almost lost at the battle of alesia, and the celtic tribes only became united at the end of the war, the Roman's had a hard time with the celts
damn, the acoustics of the venue are perfect for the carnyx
The ancient world must have been so much more magical than what we have now. Imagine marching into not just a foreign, but an absolutely mythical land shrouded in both folklore and a thick fog. As far as you know, there are giants just waiting to emerge from the mist. As you lay your caligulae where no Roman has gone before, you hear this.
This gives me full body chills and makes my eyes stream with tears. My DNA recognises this sound
Genetic library in action. From my toes to my neck my hair stood up.
I feel uneasy and like a warlord listening to it.
My blood is too mixed to make up its mind.
Hearing a group of these calling back and forth in the mist would be like a rabbit listening to the howling of wolves in the dark. You don't know where it's all coming from and you don't know how many there are. All you know is that they mean death.
Except if you’re a Roam legionnaire, then it’s death for the people playing them
@@quartzking3997 They formed the legions because of the celts
@@ThillerKillerX yeah and then they whooped their arses lol
Not really. The romans never wanted to cross the rhine because they were way to afraid of the barbaric hordes. They got their asses beat way too often over there
@@quartzking3997 There we still Celtic kingdoms when Rome fell, son.
Caledonian Celts: *Play Carnyx in creepy ass dark woods near roman camp.*
Hadrian: "You know what. Lets just put a big ass wall there."
I love hearing it repeatedly. It feels like I am reminiscing something from my past lives.
YES thats the feeling.
Ancestral memory unlocked
Bro think he was there
I find this instrument very interesting. I use analog synthesizers to create similar sounds. But to know they can be created in this simple way is hauntingly beautiful and shows the creative minds of the Celtic people. I can only imagine the terror people must have felt when they heard that sound emanating from the darkness, knowing the horror it meant was coming.
Any SoundCloud ?
Just like bagpipes, the carnyx creates what is actually considered scientifically as a very human sound. Fun fact, it's why most anthropologists believe that if humans ever reach a Dune-like spacefaring civilization (or just one in general), bagpipes will still be in use, unchanged for all those years.
Do you have something I can listen? You made me curious
Good point, we’re used to these warbles and drones, but back then it would have utterly alien.
I wish there was a 20 minute verison of this. Sounds amazing
Or a ten hour version!!
Imagine this being your ancient culture but hearing it still excites the blood !!
I don't have to imagine it...I feel it.
The sound that this instrument produces is incredible. So haunting and foreboding.
This sounds like I am about to die. 10/10.
This along with the Aztec Death whistle are the most terrifying sounds of the ancient battlefields of man kind.
Dont fuck with the pagans is all i can say 😂
this so very dearly needs to be in a film or show, somewhere it'll get the respect the instrument deserves
Pretty sure it’s used in GoT at some point by Djwadi
Good on the man, he always makes banger music@@mrbyrne96
Gladiator, Centurion, and Brave apparently feature this instrument. I’m gonna have to watch those again and pay attention.
It sounds like the music at the end of hereditary. Every single hair on my neck was up on ends towards the back of this video
I hear this, and I feel an ancient stirring in my blood. A call to war, an enemy has been seen
My husband jokes "if you want me to go off and die in battle for something play the bagpipes" and man if this isn't the exact same stirring
That sets the mood. Hai baby, yes I do play an instrument....
The ancestors listened to these tracks while staring down Romans.
I like how ominous it sounds. Even when compared to other wind instruments.
Right there at the end, you feel the energy start to shift.
This is actually terrifying, this instrument gives me chills
A good day for the crows
Ha. Odin will be proud.
@@NinjaSushi2 This is a Celtic instrument
"You like jazz?"
*The Celts:*
Imagine being near a foggy sea shore and hearing this sound coming from beyond it
I feel my ancestors in my blood when I hear this
All I'm going to say is, this is probably the last thing the Lost Legion of Rome heard.
I think this guy really nailed how it's meant to be played, less like an actual instrument of music and more a instrument to make eerie noise with, this was never a tool for song it was to make invading forces think there are demons and giants that will rip them to shreds if they didn't get back on their boats and leave, imagine hearing seven different points across the mountains where you can hear different death wails cohesing with each other the longer you stay
this affects me the same way bagpipes do, it grips my heart with longing for my ancient roots
You may also like the Goddesses of Bagpipes... ruclips.net/video/P91dyBwmYcw/видео.html
I’m sorry but this comment is just so cringeworthy lol
@@quartzking3997not really, youre just a bundle of sticks mate.
@@quartzking3997nahh, it’s the truth
cringeworthy? what are you, 12??
I just randomly remembered these existed and now I'm watching a bunch of videos of them
Oh man this place reverbs great
imagine throwing a house party without your parents knowledge then hear this when they arrive in surprise.
All the hairs on the back of my neck and arms stood up hearing this epic sound. Love it ❤
Romans in the deep central european Woods: "Why do I hear bossmusic"
Cool, now imagine hundreds of them blasting at you from all angles. You turn to your friends who are also shaking and clanging like silverware sets, and without you even hearing it you’re ambushed by thousands of naked men with axes and swords. Ancient warfare was the stuff of my most primal nightmares.
its time to stop commenting
I challenge you to sit through some heavy shelling in a modern conventional war if you think ancient warfare is scary. At least back then you could see what the people trying to kill you, and if you couldn't see them then they probably couldn't see you. If you've ever studied WW1 history you'll know the effects of prolonged shelling aren't even limited to just a horrible death, you may live to see a fate far worse than death. Whether it's because your mind will be broken, or because the wounds you sustained end up getting infected by the filth in the trenches, or by what they call ''wet shrapnel'' (I will leave it up to you to guess what that is) is almost irrelevant.
I'll leave you with a quote from a French soldier in Verdun: ''When you hear the whistling in the distance your entire body preventively crunches together to prepare for the enormous explosions. Every new explosion is a new attack, a new fatigue, a new affliction. Even nerves of the hardest of steel, are not capable of dealing with this kind of pressure. The moment comes when the blood rushes to your head, the fever burns inside your body and the nerves, numbed with tiredness, are not capable of reacting to anything anymore. It is as if you are tied to a pole and threatened by a man with a hammer. First the hammer is swung backwards in order to hit hard, then it is swung forwards, only missing your scull by an inch, into the splintering pole. In the end you just surrender. Even the strength to guard yourself from splinters now fails you. There is even hardly enough strength left to pray to God''
This is by far one of the least graphic descriptions I've come across, but I find it gets the point across rather well doesn't it?
and then you kill them 20-1 because you're a trained legionary who sticks to his training and obeys orders.
@@SuperUltraMegaMikethis is the fifth comment saying the same thing and I am pretty sure there are plenty more.
"you’re ambushed by thousands of naked men with axes and swords. Ancient warfare was the stuff of my most primal nightmares."
Sounds more like a fever dream than anything historical.
Bone chilling. Gotta get me one and go outside and play it at 2 am as a Special Performance for the neighbors.😜
I've got this on loop. So beautiful!
Hauntingly beautiful
Everybody gangsta till *VVVVVVVVVVVWROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMM*
Imagine with me for a moment. As a 20-year-old Roman soldier stationed in Britannica, the allure of exploring distant lands gripped your imagination. Marching through mist-shrouded forests in present-day lower Scotland, the haunting sound of the Carnyx preludes the thunderous charge of hundreds of Celtic warriors. True, primal fear envelops you in the realization that you're on their turf, a realm they master in combat. Confronted with impending doom, your choices narrow: fight and face certain death, flee only to meet a similar fate, or plead for mercy, perhaps sparing yourself for grim ritualistic torture. You realize that escape is an illusion as the weight of their ancestral prowess bears down on you and you're cut down and trod underfoot just as your people had done to theirs.
The Italian mind cannot comprehend this
Would love to see if there's recordings of this where there's some slightly hidden tones that people can pick up, but only on a subconscious level
Cause this sound is spine chilling
Infrasound.
I know the first nations people of australia can induce trances using just the didgeridoo. I found a few of the notes produced by the carnyx had similarities to the didgeridoo which makes sense seeing as they are both wind instruments just differing materials and shape
only 1200 BC kids will remember
This is giving me chills and intense goosebumps and I'm loving it!
One of the best sounds I've ever heard. Must have been absolutely terrifying to hear before battle.
The fear and terror is elemental…completely primal when those ascending notes get played and then back to ominous roars. I would love to feel that in the context of being on the Celtic side of the interaction of course :)
Probably made the army feel powerful and godly
Chills every time this thing played. My ancestors must be from Rome because I have this deep seated unnatural terror upon hearing this damn thing. Super cool!!
I must have Celtic ancestors cuz this shit turns me on.
I have ancestry from both, and I find this both beautiful*and* terrifying. Go figure.
Same…
nah your ancestors probably from those barbaric germanic tribes.
Did no one in these comments take history in school? The Romans completely wiped out the Celts in continental Europe
Imagine living in a time, where death was always just around the corner, born and raised in Rome, a city with 1 million inhabitants. You spent your youth working as a carpenter and built furniture for people.
You decide to join the newly formed Legion and you are sent North. You make your way through the Alps, feeling a dry cold you never felt before, making your way over rough mountains and through wet and foggy valleys. You reach your destination, a small fort along the young Rhine in modern day Switzerland. You spent most of the remaining time with some woodworking, improving the fort and building furniture. After spending a harsh winter there, some of your comrades already dead due to the cold weather and disease, you are sent out to pacify a village in a nearby valley.
You march out in spring, the beginning of April, foggy days and then hear this.
It's nice seeing people listenting to it very attentively...
Remember aswell this is just one person. They would have lot more people making these sounds at the same time. Would be chaotic horrifying
Absolutely incredible.
This made my skin crawl. Gorgeous.
I think it's fascinating. The melody is enchanting and gives me a sense of relief
Imagine being the poor guy that fell asleep just before that started playing
Imagine your Gallic mates playing this to frighten the Romans, but all you hear from the other side is "Pullo formation!"
I watch this video every day. Makes me feel alive .
This sounds awesome and primordial! 🤘
Literally sounds like the intro credits for an epic historical film
10,000BC type sound
@@RunitBackBoys much more recent than that buddy
Literally the opening scene of The Northman
It's terrifying yet beautiful
Brilliant haunting sound ... love it! 👍👍👍
Amazing sound! And the reverb of the room is really adding something
This invokes an ancestral sense that I’ve never felt before. I genuinely felt like I wanted to let out a war cry after he let out the high pitched cry.
No the player is Abraham Cupeiro, a galician carnyx player. He builds his own carnyx
This wakes up a primal part of my soul! Oh how far we've come
It sounds like the anguish and suffering of war.
Minecraft cave noises were invented centuries ago
This sends chills down my spine, a feel of melancholic joy and eagerness. An adrenaline rush, and a sense of mysterious greater purpose. I really feel connected to this
Just imagine the sounds of several of those coming out of the mist from across the battlefield.
Just imagine 100 people doing this going into battle. Good lord. As effective as the Aztec death whistle
Just imagine 100 people making the same boring RUclips comment... now imagine how bored your enemy would be
I do this once every morning at sunrise. My neighbours love me
Lol
Absolutely stunning.
Imagine hearing this and knowing this could possibly be your last day as a living persob
Imagine you're hiking in the mountains and all of a sudden you hear this:
run as quick as possible
I LOVE THIS
So awesome! I want one!!!
I listen to this and it soothes my soul 🎉
I really want one to annoy my neighbours with a giant bestial war horn. I can play the didgeridoo but I bet one of these isn't realistically affordable for me 😭
They are almost none Carnyx's that are Original and the ones self-made are more Buyable , but you can Forge one
I think they are tall so you can poke it though their bedroom window at 2am.
@@theq-1 I love this concept 😂 I think it would definitely evoke the desired effect.
Imagine being a roman soldier. Standig in a formation. And then you hear this sound out of 12 or more of these horns, blasting a absolutely terrifying sound. And then you get attacked by Celts comming out of wafts of mist.
@@ismaelmerk7042 imagine being my neighbours, its 4am everything Is silent and you are asleep suddenly you hear what sounds like godzilla and its so loud it's shaking your house and you are awakening with the taste of adrenaline on your tongue, in a blind panic you run to the window to see what is making such an earth shattering sound you pull back the blinds thinking only of what must be the impending doom of man kind only to be greeted at the second storey window by a brass beastile monstrosity of a war horn with the face of a pig crossed with a metal dragon waggling its tongue at you making a unearthly loud ethereal tone.
Imagine you're one of the 40 000 Romans at Alesia. Resting in between two thin walls. Inside the walls, 80 000 Celtic, Aquitanian and Belgic warrior. and on the outside 100 000 more coming.
Note that these are not the ancient estimates, but the modern ones. The ancient ones were 10 legions (legions have inconsistent numbers so could be anywhere from 30 to 60 thousand) vs a relief force of a quarter million (+ the army inside the city)
This puts chills down my spine.
Sunbeam: oh boy I can’t wait to rescue this survivor! I sure hope nothing bad happens!
The cannon:
Sends child up my spine. It's beautiful and terrifying at the same time.