Ancient Instruments

1. ANCIENT INSTRUMENTS
CAITLYN ROBERSON

2. AULOS
 An aulos or tibia was an ancient Greek wind instrument, depicted often in art and also attested by
archaeology
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3. LYRE
 a string instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later.

4. CORNETTO
 ancestor of trumpet, outdoor instrument
developed from cow horn, then wood.
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5. SACKBUT
 Early trombone, used in sacred and secular music, accompaniment for plainsong and singing of chorales
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6. LUTE
 Pear shaped instrument with 6-20 strings, "instrument of a gentlemen, portable, long neck which is bent
at the end at a right angle,

7. THEORBO
 plucked string instrument capable of producing chords as well as a bass line.

8. NATURAL TRUMPET
 A long, double-folded trumpet without valves.
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9. HARPSICHORD
 A Baroque instrument in which the strings are plucked instead of being struck with hammers, like
a piano.

10. SHAWM
 Medieval ancestor of oboe, that has a double reed
produces a shrill nasal tone
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11. SERPENT
 The serpent is a bass wind instrument that is a distant ancestor of the modern tuba.

12. VIOLA DA BRACCIO
 any bowed stringed instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries played on the shoulder such as a violin.

13. VIOLA DA GAMBA
 A bowed instrument held between the legs, having 6 or 7 gut strings and movable gut frets. A member
of the family of viols that pre-dated the modern violin family.
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14. NATURAL HORN
 The simplest form of the horn consisting of a tapering brass tube with mouthpiece and bell curved upon
itself and without keys or valves and producing only those tones appearing in the harmonic series.