The sound of the Carnyx
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- Опубликовано: 22 фев 2022
- Carnyx by the Obrador : obradorshop.com/
A big thank you to the cave of Lombrives for opening their doors to us: www.grottedelombrives.com/
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⊙ Assistant and Making Of: Pierre Lindner
⊙ Carnyx player and editing: Samuel Meric
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If you are interested in having a carnyx like that, I built them on a regular basis. You can send me an email at samuel.meric@gmail.com if you want to know more.
**EDIT** Why don't I mention the price in the comment section? :
- There isn't a single fixed price as it varies based on individual preferences and requirements. There are numerous customization options and details to discuss, making it impractical to cover them all here. That's why I've created an information sheet that I can share via email.
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Can I get one tuned like a lower version of this? ruclips.net/video/yLyaCgbEGIo/видео.html
How much is it?
@@zub1936 Send me an email. I can't answer that in the comment section.
Why not
I would like to be involved in the design process, because I think this could be big
Roman General in full Armour: "You will submit to the eternal glory of Ro-"
Half naked Celtic peasant covered in hallucinogenic blue paint: * Brrrrrrrr Doooooottttt Burrrrrrppp! *
Roman General: "I SAID SUBMI-"
Celt: * DOOOOOOTTTTT BURRRRRR *
😂😂😂😂
Coinciding with the human condition, doots are eternal
😂😂😂😂😂😂
*Celts gets obliterated* "should've listen to us"
😂🤣😂🤣
Roman: "........... You done?"
Celt: "..................... brrrrrrt."
People always talk about how the Carnyx was a battle horn and how terrifying it would've been to hear as a roman legionary. I think the much more fascinating way to think about them is that they are cultural objects. Some ancient copper smith went and did a full recreation of a boar's head in metal, and that was an object that existed in the world from that point on.
That can't have just been a signal horn for military purposes. It's an instrument. Imagine a class of young druids practicing on their carnices for some great festival. When the festival comes, they will form a procession, with each carnyx' head being carried on the shoulder of the person in front. A low hum emanates from them, stirring the guts of every festival goer. It is summer.
I mean hey, modern Celts have their bagpipes, which are also known for being used in war, but that's certainly not all the Scots use them for.
I think some of the Romans would've been freaked out, but most of the high ranking officers would've seen creatures like elephants, lions, and war dogs. They could probably prepare their infantry for the psychological/auditorial tactics the Celts used, which would've made them stronger. Other occasions make more sense, however I doubt they just had them "lying around", because it would take nearly up until the modern era for any large, organized group of people to give the common-person access to really any instruments.
@@davidbakke9293oh god I had a horrible idea. For psychological warfare, hide in the forests play bagpipes. Constantly. Barely engage, just bagpipe.
Imagine 200 of these being played outside of the castle you live in, it’s night time and suddenly an army is on your doorstep and they play this instrument and drums. Immediately in panic is how most would be
Very well said 😰
The most effective laxative that ancient Mankind ever knew...😂😂😂
Scary to the point where your gut drops heart and gut turn with adrenaline and impending doom….
On some other video someone made a comment I can't stop considering....
They were just pointing out how TERRIFYING it must have been...to be some naive 19 year old Roman soldier, only aware of your own culture, thousands of miles from home, deep in the woods, at night, no clue where your enemy is.....and then you hear THIS, but not one....a massive chorus of them....seemingly coming from all directions. I would need new pants asap.
Good thing Roman's didn't typically wear pants (I'd also say the boy's age would be closer to 16/17 or on the opposite end and mid-late 20s)
The bit after when you got a face full of angry Celt would have been the bit where I dropped a brown note 😂
Imagine a well disciplined legion patiently marching towards you as one big metal beast, and you're a bunch of naked dudes in a forest with trumpets. It goes both ways
Imagine marching through the hills and through the misty woods you hear this and the screams of angry celts charging you.
Would be a nice change from hearing "Allahu Ackbar" and angry Muslims chasing us with knifes. 😅
@@theinnerlight8016 Brothers in arms just listen
The horn of Helm Hammerhand will sound in the deep, one last time.
_Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!_
Ahhh...the sound of My People!❤❤❤
Imagine being a Roman on patrol past Hadrian's Wall and out of the mist, you hear this.
The way the tone and mood switch from innocent , dreamy , and slowly transitions to menacing, doomful , horrific and then back and forth again is amazing. Total psychological mind fuck on the battle field.
It's almost like a mind game of mind reading saying, "I'm going to mock you with every emotion that's going through your head right now. You don't even know what's coming to get you right now 😈".
The acoustics of the cave really improve the resonance of this recording, but the instrument is extraordinary even without. Can you imagine being a Roman legionary waiting in your army’s ranks, prior to battle, on a misty cold dawn, waiting for the barbarian Celts to come running over the skyline, accompanied by their horrible, Druidical, sorcerers ! And then you hear the sound of dozens of these Approaching? A serious test to discipline. Probably would have given the cavalry a few rough moments too.
If I was a Roman warrior on an ancient battlefield, and a bunch of barely-armored Celts covered in blue paint showed up with this sound, screaming in fury and rage... I might tuck my tail and run
Legionaries be like: "This is anti-Italian discrimination!"
Never forget! Our Roman gods are watching us on this day! Make sure they are not ashamed!
"DO STAIRWAY TO ELYSIUM!"
Celtic cum face?
No I'm taking that instrument after we're done fighting.
I like when it makes the quick bark sound "grrrrr.... wowf!" 2:13
ur the opposing force staring into the fog for a sign of where ur enemies are when all of a sudden five of these things start up at once
"We are here."
"Come and get us."
Imagine being an opposing army and hearing hundreds or even thousands of these blasting at you an eighth of a mile away from across a foggy battlefield.
Would suck
It would cure your constipation, at the very least.
Absolutely terrifying.
Imagine 100+ of these playing across a battlefield. Wild.
Be a combination of beautifull and terror staring thousands of fed up celts in the face on the battlefield while they play this magnificent piece of history!!
Really starting to feel the Carnyx is what's been missing in my life.
I love how at the start, it sang with the beauty of an angel.
But then the notes got deeper...and deeper...and deeper...
And it started sounding like a straight up war horn.
That puppy started sounding absolutely *Filthy.* and i am all for it!
Edit: oh my god he made it BARK!!!!
This dude, and this instrument, are both insane. And incredible. ❤
I love the sound of Carnyx in the morning. Sounds like……victory.
Fantastic comment!
Add in a Roman cornu and a misty setting you got yourself a battle musical of the ages.
Boom!
Imagine this being played at the ending of a battle, dead bodies all over the floor and people groaning in pain left and right, the occasional clang of a sword in the distance…. Fog rolling over a hill and the sound emanating from within…
I can see it as well as I hear it. cool as fukk
1:30 hearing that baritone note thousands of years ago would be absolutely nightmarish. That is such an odd frequency and it resonates only with a primal terror. And then that gnarly bark at 2:11…this man can play incredibly!
Based pfp
@@IloveTide1997 😏
The Carnyx is sometimes seen as a war horn but it wasn't really a war horn. The Celtic Gaels use play mind games with the Romans the most famous of which was going to battle naked. Seeing the Roman covered in armor and big shields and tight formations the Gaels looked at the Romans as cowards so they would strip of completely in front of the Romans before engaging. Another psychological tactic was involving this instrument, the carnyx. Was an instrument used for ceremonial hunts... but they would also then, blow the carnyx for the Romans to hear, to let them know they were little more than prey, and were being hunted! These mind games in conjunction with their no less terrifying combat tactics was very successful!
Interesting how they were masters of sound and...sound pushcology i guess you'd call it. I remember a long time ago visiting the Chislehurst caves in England and the oldest portion made by the Celts (also largest, they think it might go out all the way to dover iirc) was essentially a pitch black sensory deprivation hell maze only navigable by sound (or how to truly psychologically destroy any intruders - it's LOUD down there).
Really makes me wish we knew more about them generally and what kind of technology they could've evolved if they weren't killed ir enslaved and then ousted to the corner. I imagine it would be very cool auditory based inventions.
the nakedness doesn't seem like a mind game, more so like a tradition related to the way of fighting no?
Mind games until the fight started and the romans killed them at a 20-1 ratio
@@thepoweroftacos5311 Not true at all. The Celts in Europe yes but the Gaels up ended the Romans. The Romans became terrified of the Gaels They abandoned any notion of conquering Ireland the abandoned the fort they were building in Scotland the retreated back to the south east of England and the Gaels followed them. Romans recorded themselves, that they would be on full alert at the site of a curly haired woman with black or red hair for fear that a group of gaels were on their way to attack! They built the London wall to keep the Gaels out (and the other celts that had banded together with them after the retreat of course). When you say 'mind games are successfull' it not said because it didn't work... lmao XD They were successful because they were fucking successful! Of course the Anglo-Saxons invaded from east and finished was left of the Romans in Britain and around the same time the surviving "barbarian" tribes in Europe took the opportunity of a crumbling and divided Senate in Roman and attacked causing the downfall of the empire. But basically The Roman expansion and conquest of northern Europe came to a complete halt when the met the Gaels
The Romans won XD "Very successful" Fun fact: Not dying in battle thanks to armor is better then being kinda scary.
Lowkey thought we were gonna get Jurasic Park with the first couple notes lmao
Love this, impressive sound, love myself some intimidating war horns
Came here to comment this!
Absolutely wonderful. Our Celtic festivals should include these, with instruction on how ancient they are.
Plus, Celtic festivals should feature them en masse, like they were deployed with Celtic armies, especially as in the many battles with Roman armies. I want to know more about how they were used to rally the warriors gathering outside of Alesia on that fateful day, when the warriors could no longer wait, and against Vercingetorix's advice began to attack Julius Caesar's outer walls.
imagine you're a young roman soldier from like southern italy and you're riding/walking through wet, cold swamps and then you hear that shit from the distance...
I was having an conversation with my daughter about ancient weapons and how sound was often used to scare the enemy a few days ago. I just sent her this video. I am a trumpet player and she is a french horn player. This is just awesome. I would love to play one.
Thank you. You can send me an email at samuel.meric at gmail.com if you want to know more
everyone before one was dug up- “what does it sound like”
only historian to describe it- “war”
It sounds mournful and suspenseful, but the low part into the sort of elk sound is where it gets eerie, creepy and somewhat terrifying
I don’t know the origins nor use of a carnyx and can only imagine it was meant to be heard across a battlefield due to its height but it looks absolutely ridiculous and completely impractical. I love it.
It's designed for intimidation. Imagine marching an army through the misty hills of ancient Gaul, and you hear one of these sound off somewhere ahead of you out of sight. Then you hear responses, all around you from the woods, past the crests of the nearest hills, and then an army materializes at a run, heading straight for you. That's basically the Julius Ceasar experience.
I am obsessed with caves < I am obsessed with playing music in caves.
It’s fascinating how large the range and capabilities of this horn is. It’s able to capture brass horn sounds while managing to compete right along side a didgeridoo with those deep sounds. This is a Celtic war horn correct?
yes, it was used around the time the romans came to britain, theres many reports of roman soldiers being pretty freaked out by the very strange tall horns the british and irish used
Well it is a pretty long brass wind instrument, so you know it got the low pedal range and then pretty much no limit for high notes as ot just depends on the players skills. Just like any other brass instrument. Or instrument without a reed mouthpiece. Id compare this one to a tuba or a contrabasstrombone.
Activating some poor ghosts’ post traumatic stress disorder
Roman Soldier: "sir do you hear that?"
Centurion: "probably just the wind"
The wind in question:
Everyone's a Roman until the trees start speaking Germanic.
this is what fish have to put up with all day living next to whales
😂
This comment made me laugh to myself in my car 😂
POV: Your legion just finished erecting the log walls of your fort. It's 4am, and the surrounding forest sounds like this for some reason.
I read that to my girlfriend while listening to this, she said it sent shivers down her spine......she has Iberian genetics
Don't forget the incoming fog.
Then an awesome synth line comes louder and it's actually the clip of Deutschland from Rammstein that is being recorded.
Few.
Imagine the boats coming to shore and hearing this. Not just one but hundreds. the terro this would cause.
Grateful to every person who helps resurrect this instrument and keep it's sound alive. Glory to everyone who has kept Gaul from completely fading forever.
Algerians and Moroccans are chiefly responsible for that.
@@fedyno4reviews That's awesome honestly, especially with the history of Gaul and Carthage fighting together against Rome.
Ineed, dito! Your poetic words in God's ear!
The algorithm offered me a taste. I am now obsessed. Thank you deeply to those who value the past enough to explore it. And recreate it as the artisan mastercrafters and scienctists and archiologists music masters have done with these hauntingly beautiful war horns. Bless your endeavors and yourselves!
Imagine many of these playing together in a valley just before a battle.
My cats were super interested in this sound 😮
The Honda civic driving through my neighborhood at 2 am.
i wish my honda civic sounded this tranquil and beautiful
Ahaha
The overtones and the reverb ❤
the way he's changing notes so fluidly... that's not as easy at it seems...
My digereedoo lessons are all coming back to me
@beldin4704 Haha, same!
RUclips has been suggesting a surprisingly huge amount of Carnyx content since I watched one cool video about it. And I love it.
War time instruments are often haunting but they certainly make for good pieces outside of war
That growl around 2:15… perfection
I can't tell if I should be charmed or terrified. What a wonderful piece of culture
Imagine you are a roman stumbling into a mist and these sounds start playing, getting closer and closer.
And then you proceed to annihilate the celts.
Centurion: FORM A FUCKING LINE YOU DOGS, LETS SHOW THESE SCUM HOW TO WAR.
@@BirdsfromHuntingdon But suddenly you realise it's 390bc. oh no!
@@musicjunk8266 Agh! Damn Brennus!
I've typed this before, play a few roman cornu and you have a battle scene.
Am I the only one whose blood stirred and woke when hearing this? Like a primal memory of lives past. I think i must have one.
We all live more than this one lifetime.
Your individualized PERSONALITY is what dies every time, but the larger soul monad is what is eternal and becomes reborn.
Materialist science refuses to study the non-physical phenomena of consciousness, but it is my theory that in a few hundred years science will eventually catch up to the ancient mysteries.
We are ETERNAL!
@@steviechampagne
Nonsense. Personality is produced by neurology and dies with it.
@@Pyriphlegeton correct. your personality is what only lasts one lifetime, one incarnation.
consciousness is NOT generated by the brain
@@steviechampagne I felt my ancestors swinging an axe as i heard this
I have Celtic roots, I feel it in my blood and bones as-well. A echo of our ancestors awakens within.
Fuckin metal 🤘
The primal feeling it delivers through my body is amazing. This is our blood. This is our heritage speaking to our souls.
mf accidently walks past this cave and hears this shit, id just about think Armageddon has started
Or that the Wild Hunt was mustering, and he was its first target ...
@@seanbigay1042 its starting to feel a little chilly out rn
I'll be honest with you, this is not even close to the first carnyx video I've watched
“Bae come over my parents are gone”
“Can’t. Watching Carynx vids”
Thank you my dude, for keeping this tradition alive. A lot of celtic peoples must appreciate this. That sound is hunting.
It does sound scary- can you imagine if you have never heard an instrument before and out of the woods you hear this
Calls from the gods. 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Beautiful.
And then he blew it so hard the cave collapsed on him due to resonance but it was beautiful while it lasted :D
Truly stunning, well done.
Roman soldiers: Oh god another boss fight
LOL
It’s hard to hear this and not find yourself wondering how a Roman felt hearing this sound echoing through the morning fog deep in a primeval forest, that moment when the icy chill rolls down their spine like a waterfall.
and then they crushed the celts and gave them technology :)
This.
@@nikw3026 and where are the romans today? celts still alive and well
@@Chungus8381 In Italy? And maybe in your genetics since they conquered you. The only civilized nation in Europe besides Greek Pre the Western year 0
@@Chungus8381 true, Roman’s got absolutely stomped on by the vandals and then everybody started bullying them until the empire just took a steamy poo into the notes of history
Gives me that fall of Rome vibe
I imagine warriors running through the woods with this playing in the background so their footsteps can’t be heard
The high notes are like a French horn, but the low notes are like a didgeridoo!
*the ancestors liked that*
Or depending on which side they where on, they pooped their pants.
@@DeltaNovum nah, maybe yóùr ancestors, but history stands attested, Men used to be much more brave back then than they are now
Sounds like the trumpets of revelations
This is amazing!! A surprising range in styles! The soulfulness at the beginning was unexpected!
Also that bark scared the crap out of me so thanks 😂😂😂 was that a sound of the pipe itself or your shout being amplified?
How heavy is one of these?
Thank you. Yes I definitely shout in the instruments but I have to combine technics, it's hard to explain. My carnyx is about 2,5kg.
@@samuelmeric-lobrador4580 that’s cool! And ah, lighter than I thought. Though I imagine the extreme top-heaviness might be hard to hold up after a while
the algorithm calls.
a carnyx answers
Beautiful, as are the notes.
Wow. You got so many different sounds from it. Thank you for making the ancestors come alive again.
1:28 just saving the best part, don't mind me
Seems like the sound would travel reeeeeeeeally far.
Putting like twenty of these together on a hillside and....yikes, that'd be....pretty scary.
Merci à l'archéologie de nous avoir fait découvrir cette instrument antique celtique
Absolutely majestic sound. Straight away I get transported to a Lord of the Rings ceremony 😊😄
I genuinely find the high octave “trills” extremely pleasing
That "wow" sound at about 2:20 would be freaky to warriors who had never heard it. And humming another pitch makes wild overtones. Yes!
Jesus with a war horn. New fear unlocked
😅😅😅
Jesus wasn’t white though.
@@aliciamarie9704who cares what shade of skin he was… still looks like Jesus 🤷♂️
This demonstration shown some tones I didn't knew could be done with the carnyx, I only knew the "they're in the WOODS!!! RUN!!!!" Kind of sound but I get a more grievious tone like "A song of battle for our fallen brothers and fathers"
Beautiful sound, I love its deepness
If I heard this in a dark forest I’d run for my life
😂😂
I'm now convinced a modern day Caryn is what what people are claiming is this "Global Hum" coming out of the sky.
The deep bellow is terrifying
Now I finally know what kind of instruments orcs were playing in lotr.
Jokes aside truly interesting thanks for sharing it :)
Yes, this instrument represents the orcs. Gregorian chant represents their enemies who repelled them.
There are some vocal sounds in that piece that remind me if Australian didgeridoo playing.
Waves of goosebumps the whole time. I'm a sucker for good sound and this tickles my brain nicely.
Needs a mongolian throat singer and two guitars in drop a then we got some sardukar battle music
Throat singer, handpan, didgeridoo and sitar accompaniment for sure. Wild sounds.
That would be wicked ! , I’ve been watching videos on this instrument for the past 30 minutes and now I want one 🤣🤣🤣
@@woahdudeitsme9742 I would buy that album!
Playing this in a cave with candles burning is awesome. This reminds me a bit of a French horn, but there is something ancient about it as well. Now this Celtic lass knows what our Carnyx sounds like--thank you so much for uploading!
My favorite horn of all. What a magnificent and beautiful instrument.
imagine hearing this in the dead of night, waking up to find yourself scrambling for your weapons and armor. only to come out of your resting place knowing that there are only two choices; either you will die with glory, or flee as a coward
i could imagine the people mimicking certain sounds with this thing too like wolf howls and such.
I don't find their sound terrifying. I hear their potential for beauty.
You would change your mind if you were a Roman soldier who just entered a dark endless forest in Gallia.
You would change your mind if you were a Roman soldier entering a dark, endless forest in the barbaric Gallia.
Yes and yes
@samuellambert6502 - battle formation
**blood memory activated**
How does it sound echoing through a dense forest? And, I imagine, with its height, anyone seeing it in the forest would not see the person below who would be blowing it. Only a disembodied dragon's head, high in the trees.
not to be that guy but the dragon head is actually a boars head
@@bubinater2 Oops. You're right.
It's incredible how many sounds you can create with this. So beautiful. Hits me to the core for sure
reminds me of the good old days.
This is incredible. Thank you for sharing this. I would like to extend a genuine compliment that is free of that creepy thirst we all love to hate ... you are GORGEOUS.
Now I want to hear like 20 of these things doing the barking thing in rapid, slightly offset, succession.
That bark at 2:14 was cool as hell
I was wondering if that was actually a dog. To be honest, I'm still wondering.
Why am I crying? This instrument touched my soul.
Vous pleurez parce que cet instrument à 2000 ans, je suppose.
This and a digeridoo would be nice
Now take that deep sound and run a vocoder through it and you have the dune priest.
This gave people death anxiety. And it brings peace in someway ....
Yeah I would imagine being terrified as an opponent hearing this. It sounds like I’m being pulled towards death. Like the gates of heaven are opening up in front of me. Death is inevitable.
I’m mostly Scottish and I can’t get enough of it. Makes sense.
I imagine they weren't making such friendly noise with it when trying to demoralize enemies.
Psychological warefare.
J'imagine le légionnaire Romain en pleine forêt au milieu de la Gaule de bon matin qui entend ça .... Ça devait être impressionnant même pour des professionnels comme les légionnaires Romains !!!