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  • 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  Před 3 lety +303

    Buy your cd here: www.abrahamcupeiro.com

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      @jaxsonxander6470 Před 3 lety +3

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    • @romanalejandro749
      @romanalejandro749 Před 3 lety +3

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  • @BeeWhistler
    @BeeWhistler Před 3 lety +14676

    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 Před 3 lety +722

      This and you can get these instruments a lot easier nowadays

    • @dolphinsarebetterthanpeopl9758
      @dolphinsarebetterthanpeopl9758 Před 3 lety +84

      😂

    • @jod3517
      @jod3517 Před 3 lety +149

      Underrated comment

    • @ryanhampson673
      @ryanhampson673 Před 3 lety +636

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

    • @comtedebuffon9690
      @comtedebuffon9690 Před 3 lety +253

      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

  • @nathanleary9662
    @nathanleary9662 Před 3 lety +9284

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

    • @Teghead
      @Teghead Před 3 lety +564

      How is he producing different pitches with the instrument?

    • @Xezlec
      @Xezlec Před 3 lety +1312

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

    • @Zephyrdaze1819
      @Zephyrdaze1819 Před 3 lety +597

      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 Před 3 lety +25

      So true !

    • @thardingau
      @thardingau Před 3 lety +170

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

  • @PrisonBrain
    @PrisonBrain Před 2 lety +926

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 Před 4 měsíci +10

      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 Před měsícem +1

      Five nights at hannibal 💀

  • @tom_something
    @tom_something Před 2 lety +2262

    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 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +16

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

    • @Miss-cq6iw
      @Miss-cq6iw Před 2 lety +7

      Thank you

    • @tom_something
      @tom_something Před 2 lety +28

      @@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 Před 2 lety +18

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

  • @elcatrinc1996
    @elcatrinc1996 Před 3 lety +3504

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

  • @brettpearson9979
    @brettpearson9979 Před 3 lety +4007

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

    • @theshuman100
      @theshuman100 Před 3 lety +224

      People: getting slaughtered
      The bard:

    • @andrewgarner2224
      @andrewgarner2224 Před 3 lety +49

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

    • @StopFear
      @StopFear Před 3 lety +20

      Or it could just as easily make your knees shake

    • @wscottcarter
      @wscottcarter Před 3 lety +25

      Bagpipes mate

    • @eduardocofrancesco4373
      @eduardocofrancesco4373 Před 3 lety +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"

  • @kalashnikov98
    @kalashnikov98 Před 3 lety +78

    "Gracchus! Something more cheerful!"

  • @ttonya_ma
    @ttonya_ma Před 3 lety +79

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

    • @Mr.Byrnes
      @Mr.Byrnes Před 2 lety +6

      Wow. Takes you back to another age

    • @gamerforever2126
      @gamerforever2126 Před rokem +5

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 Před 4 měsíci +3

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

  • @MusicMajorMaestro
    @MusicMajorMaestro Před 4 lety +5241

    This would have been terrifying to hear in battle

    • @ksoundkaiju9256
      @ksoundkaiju9256 Před 3 lety +289

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

    • @Duron0
      @Duron0 Před 3 lety +35

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

    • @andreaswieser444
      @andreaswieser444 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +44

      Not as much as an Aztec death whistle.

    • @hortenseweinblatt1508
      @hortenseweinblatt1508 Před 3 lety +17

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

  • @paunaic5460
    @paunaic5460 Před 3 lety +4250

    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 Před 3 lety +53

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

    • @Phelan666
      @Phelan666 Před 3 lety +48

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

    • @Khamomil
      @Khamomil Před 3 lety

      They're not all myths.

    • @txukulun1
      @txukulun1 Před 3 lety

      @@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 Před 2 lety

      Sveiki!

  • @yokez
    @yokez Před 2 lety +57

    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

  • @circuslife888
    @circuslife888 Před rokem +107

    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 Před 9 měsíci +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 Před 4 měsíci

      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.

  • @RayfieldA
    @RayfieldA Před 3 lety +3140

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

  • @CinemaoftheMind
    @CinemaoftheMind Před 3 lety +2999

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

    • @wildliferox2
      @wildliferox2 Před 3 lety +134

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

    • @OphiuchiChannel
      @OphiuchiChannel Před 3 lety +96

      Without the volcano we would probably hear it more often.

    • @ante5544
      @ante5544 Před 3 lety +11

      @@OphiuchiChannel What

    • @OphiuchiChannel
      @OphiuchiChannel Před 3 lety +31

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

    • @ante5544
      @ante5544 Před 3 lety +132

      @@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.

  • @alex1chang1
    @alex1chang1 Před 4 měsíci +24

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

    • @voraciousreader3341
      @voraciousreader3341 Před 2 měsíci +2

      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!

  • @annelyceimgrund6884
    @annelyceimgrund6884 Před rokem +115

    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 Před 8 měsíci

      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 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Both used in tandem would be awesome.

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @DavideMCMXCIX
    @DavideMCMXCIX Před 3 lety +876

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

    • @droe2570
      @droe2570 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +15

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

    • @starlegends3092
      @starlegends3092 Před 2 lety

      Oooo.
      Where was my ancesters 2000 years ago🤔

    • @starlegends3092
      @starlegends3092 Před 2 lety

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

    • @DavideMCMXCIX
      @DavideMCMXCIX Před 2 lety +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 Před 3 lety +1434

    This looks like something out of a Dr Seuss book

  • @AbrahamLincoln4
    @AbrahamLincoln4 Před 3 lety +498

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

  • @beautyforashes2022
    @beautyforashes2022 Před 2 lety +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 Před 9 měsíci +2

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 Před 4 měsíci

      Truly an instrument it takes several lifetimes to forget.

  • @brownstonecustomcabinetry5309

    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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +4

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

    • @thardingau
      @thardingau Před 3 lety +2

      Any good brass player could do this.

    • @Sphagetti__
      @Sphagetti__ Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @kblskables2877
    @kblskables2877 Před 3 lety +296

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

    • @sullieduser6116
      @sullieduser6116 Před 3 lety +16

      GONDOR CALLS FOR AID!!!!

    • @tyj9175
      @tyj9175 Před 3 lety +10

      @@sullieduser6116 and rohan will answer!

    • @eurasiaacaci.-110
      @eurasiaacaci.-110 Před 3 lety +2

      Help the legioners of cannae

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 Před 4 měsíci

      "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."

  • @kyo.u
    @kyo.u Před 2 lety +38

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 Před 4 měsíci

      알 수 없는 알고리즘이 날 여기로 데려왔지만 .

  • @carmenpaula3781
    @carmenpaula3781 Před 4 měsíci +4

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

  • @SedDelMar
    @SedDelMar Před 3 lety +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 Před 4 měsíci

      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?

  • @usssanjacinto1
    @usssanjacinto1 Před 3 lety +865

    Imagine hearing 30,000 of these before battle.

  • @Reblwitoutacause
    @Reblwitoutacause Před 4 měsíci +4

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

  • @dtpiers6136
    @dtpiers6136 Před rokem +7

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

  • @admiralbuttwallace8494
    @admiralbuttwallace8494 Před 4 lety +1444

    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 Před 3 lety +61

      Nah the carnyx is way more haunting

    • @krisdood713
      @krisdood713 Před 3 lety +5

      @@Adrian-zc1iz yep

    • @QockNobblr
      @QockNobblr Před 3 lety +70

      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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +20

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

  • @strangeperson700
    @strangeperson700 Před 3 lety +677

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

  • @michaeldeierhoi4096
    @michaeldeierhoi4096 Před 2 měsíci +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.

  • @ubermo1182
    @ubermo1182 Před 3 měsíci +2

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

  • @VoicesofMusic
    @VoicesofMusic Před 4 lety +1367

    Awesome

  • @TIMOTHEVS
    @TIMOTHEVS Před 5 lety +547

    I can hear the legions marching!

    • @krisdood713
      @krisdood713 Před 3 lety +5

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

    • @krisdood713
      @krisdood713 Před 3 lety

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

    • @krisdood713
      @krisdood713 Před 3 lety

      @CipiRipi00 ever heard of sword sheaths

    • @headdog
      @headdog Před 3 lety

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

    • @HO-bndk
      @HO-bndk Před 3 lety

      @@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.

  • @Funckle73
    @Funckle73 Před 2 lety +9

    The man, the instrument, the sound is glorious🥰

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 Před 4 měsíci

      Truly man hath no sweeteer sound than BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGG

  • @janviljoen7001
    @janviljoen7001 Před 3 měsíci +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.

  • @giuseppesalvo5755
    @giuseppesalvo5755 Před 3 lety +157

    It's brutal and solemn at the same time

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @SMARTCATCH2010
    @SMARTCATCH2010 Před 3 lety +610

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

  • @josueantonio3457
    @josueantonio3457 Před 4 měsíci +2

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

  • @osoio
    @osoio Před 2 lety +15

    Maravilhoso. Obrigado, Abraham.
    Abraços do Brasil.

  • @masa-qi8cx
    @masa-qi8cx Před 3 lety +191

    Imagine hearing this during an eclipse.

  • @TheConfusername
    @TheConfusername Před 3 lety +563

    So this is what a C-clef sounds like.

  • @elianaaparecidasantos3348
    @elianaaparecidasantos3348 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Mui encantador e mágico.
    Thank you

  • @FoxyfloofJumps
    @FoxyfloofJumps Před 9 měsíci +2

    Lovely tone and stability of pitch.

  • @scottpreston5074
    @scottpreston5074 Před 3 lety +126

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 Před 4 měsíci

      >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."

  • @sugarfoot84
    @sugarfoot84 Před 3 lety +57

    There’s something so majestic and regal about this.

  • @Eidolon1andOnly
    @Eidolon1andOnly Před 2 lety +4

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

  • @JohnDoe-oo9ll
    @JohnDoe-oo9ll Před 2 lety +3

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

  • @cpegg5840
    @cpegg5840 Před 4 lety +174

    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 Před 3 lety +1

      Wow

    • @keyosuke
      @keyosuke Před 3 lety +4

      This may be the funniest comment in history.

    • @italia8705
      @italia8705 Před 3 lety

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

    • @rubenceriani9696
      @rubenceriani9696 Před 3 lety

      @@italia8705 roma per sempre

    • @NightOwl1515
      @NightOwl1515 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @Gilmaris
    @Gilmaris Před 5 lety +156

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

    • @Fablins-kt9ti
      @Fablins-kt9ti Před 3 lety +9

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

    • @Gilmaris
      @Gilmaris Před 3 lety +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 Před 2 lety +1

      We will write for it if more folks learn it.

    • @FVmike
      @FVmike Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @uremailingalex
    @uremailingalex Před 2 lety +4

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

  • @nigel900
    @nigel900 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Hauntingly beautiful… 👍🏻

  • @zrusit9640
    @zrusit9640 Před 5 lety +595

    Gracchus, something more cheerful!

  • @jamesberwick2210
    @jamesberwick2210 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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.

  • @nathanjasper512
    @nathanjasper512 Před 2 lety +4

    Finally a compact trumpet I can travel with.

  • @user-od3mt6lq7f
    @user-od3mt6lq7f Před 4 měsíci +2

    Beautiful. Thanks for posting

  • @malykoth
    @malykoth Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +23

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

    • @binhobrasileiro
      @binhobrasileiro Před 3 lety +3

      @@marko7552 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @LordCasezors117
      @LordCasezors117 Před 3 lety +1

      @@marko7552 LMFAO

    • @janaterbio8010
      @janaterbio8010 Před 3 lety +6

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 Před 4 měsíci

      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.

  • @GorgonDrageil
    @GorgonDrageil Před 3 lety +85

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 Před 4 měsíci

      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.

  • @user-jq2yw6lk7w
    @user-jq2yw6lk7w Před 9 měsíci +1

    This is ture mastery. The trumpets we have today manipulate the sound with buttons. However this you have to use souly your mouth and the amount of air flow. Absolutly amazing. I don't think people realize how hard this actually is.

  • @MarioSanchez-tl3wv
    @MarioSanchez-tl3wv Před 2 lety +1

    ! Que potencia de musicalidad !!
    Gracias Abraham Cupeiro.
    Saludos desde el terrunio con 3km de espesor de oro : Ecuador.

  • @riabreed011
    @riabreed011 Před 5 lety +74

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

  • @Beccati.sto.trapezio
    @Beccati.sto.trapezio Před 3 lety +65

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Once you've heard the sweet sound of BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGG

  • @kilo3989
    @kilo3989 Před 2 lety +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 Před 9 měsíci

      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 czcams.com/video/3NDws2ATZnY/video.htmlsi=glO9RWBmMNifKt88

  • @dukecity7688
    @dukecity7688 Před 4 měsíci +1

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

  • @SecularDarwinism
    @SecularDarwinism Před 3 lety +40

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

    • @OffGridInvestor
      @OffGridInvestor Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @pedrocampinopt
    @pedrocampinopt Před 3 lety +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 Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @Vikingr4Jesus5919
    @Vikingr4Jesus5919 Před 3 měsíci +4

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

  • @ChuckD59
    @ChuckD59 Před 4 měsíci +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.

  • @sethfoulk6990
    @sethfoulk6990 Před 3 lety +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!

  • @nickshryock7470
    @nickshryock7470 Před 3 lety +10

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

  • @KamikazeMedias
    @KamikazeMedias Před 2 lety +7

    Imagine yourself, as a roman general on a horse, in an armor...
    And your troops march up out of the city, when this plays... It must have felt glorious to you.. Fuel pride in that army..

  • @-johnny-deep-
    @-johnny-deep- Před 2 lety +1

    Wow - that is one cool looking and awesome sounding brass instrument! Quite suitable for "blowing down the walls of Jericho!"

  • @albertodelpuerto430
    @albertodelpuerto430 Před 3 lety +8

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

  • @silviadelvalle3947
    @silviadelvalle3947 Před 3 lety +15

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

  • @riccardo50001
    @riccardo50001 Před 4 měsíci +1

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

  • @ВикторСуслин
    @ВикторСуслин Před 4 měsíci +2

    Alle Nachbarn werden dieses wunderbare Musikinstrument lieben. Besonders morgens.

  • @roniesanderson
    @roniesanderson Před 4 lety +62

    A rich and dynamic sound. Imagine how hard it must have been to make this instrument with basic hand tools and roll the metal into shape with out kinking it.

    • @HeatherSpoonheim
      @HeatherSpoonheim Před 3 lety +4

      I think it would need to be filled with sand to bend it.

    • @roniesanderson
      @roniesanderson Před 3 lety

      @@HeatherSpoonheim Yes your right, I have bent steel pipe like that but I was also thinking of getting it from hand beaten sheet to roll a tube.

    • @HeatherSpoonheim
      @HeatherSpoonheim Před 3 lety +5

      @@roniesanderson Indeed - it would take years of hand crafting to learn how to do that. The worst would be getting all the metal pounded flat, rounded, sealed, then having it burst when bending it.

    • @roniesanderson
      @roniesanderson Před 3 lety +1

      @@HeatherSpoonheim Yes your right. I think the scrap bin would have a lot of failures in it.They look like a type of bronze and it would be reasonable that the makers would have tried different alloys to get the right malleability .

    • @HeatherSpoonheim
      @HeatherSpoonheim Před 3 lety +4

      @@roniesanderson I'm guessing that this would not be a 'starter' project. Metallurgy develops, techniques develop to exploit that, around and around, and at some point a horn gets made. It probably took generations of craftsmen to finally start making longer and longer horns.

  • @LadyMngwa
    @LadyMngwa Před 6 lety +197

    Sound of this instrument is amazing. I just wonder how he changes the tone

    • @erick-gd7wo
      @erick-gd7wo Před 6 lety +28

      Ellen Szokky like someone plays any brass instrument with mouthpiece i guess

    • @LadyMngwa
      @LadyMngwa Před 6 lety +43

      Thanks, that was immensely helpful :-/

    • @mollywalts2776
      @mollywalts2776 Před 6 lety +90

      The position of his lips and how hard or soft he blows creates diffirent sound ( causes diffirent vibrations ). In Brass, it's all about the "Lip" ! Bugles work in the same way. :-)

    • @fleisch4809
      @fleisch4809 Před 6 lety +7

      I think, bending it a bit also changes the tone

    • @UlimorUdamenta
      @UlimorUdamenta Před 5 lety +37

      Im no expert in Brass(but I took lessons in French Horn in college😅), but I know the emboucher(could have spelled it wrong) or the muscles around the lips along with how hard you blow or vibrate your lips changes the pitch. Hope that makes sense. I perform with Natural Brass musicians in Period ensembles and they make awesome sounds with just the lips and none of the modern attachments you see in modern brass instruments like the valves and such. Cheers!

  • @macsnafu
    @macsnafu Před 2 lety +2

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

  • @theshypersistence
    @theshypersistence Před 2 lety +4

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

  • @ICGedye
    @ICGedye Před 4 lety +8

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

  • @bergerfonkoenig6997
    @bergerfonkoenig6997 Před 3 lety +4

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

  • @violainesoublette9333
    @violainesoublette9333 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Que increible sonido tiene ese instrumento! Maravilloso!

  • @parks-music-cafe
    @parks-music-cafe Před 2 měsíci +1

    Very good.
    Powerful sound!
    Thank you for sharing~~~

  • @stephaniecarrow4898
    @stephaniecarrow4898 Před 3 lety +3

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

  • @thomasmiller4642
    @thomasmiller4642 Před 3 lety +7

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

  • @katiobrien7854
    @katiobrien7854 Před 4 měsíci +1

    How haunting. Wonderful! Thank you.

  • @vascondi
    @vascondi Před 2 lety +1

    Sonido fabuloso, histórico y fantástico...!!!!👏👏

  • @ChainsTheChef888
    @ChainsTheChef888 Před 3 lety +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

  • @tryhardfinessedyou
    @tryhardfinessedyou Před 3 lety +12

    Impressive is the range from a single horn.

  • @blackfootelite2800
    @blackfootelite2800 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Can you imagine the terror this provoked. Amazing

  • @AngelCatBaby
    @AngelCatBaby Před 4 měsíci +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. 👍❤️🙏🏼🎵

  • @lazerbeamlightningstorm5844

    Im gonna replace my alarm clock with this

  • @fernandocavalarianopatriota

    Que som lindo ! Bravo ! Majestoso e imponente !

  • @BeezyNgeezY-ul1nu
    @BeezyNgeezY-ul1nu Před 2 lety +2

    He is making absolutely beautiful tones on that. He's making it look/sound easy but I can tell you that what he is doing is anything but. He has to move substantial air while making the most delicate change to his embouchure

  • @suewilkinson5855
    @suewilkinson5855 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I did not expect this skinny twisty tube to have such a big voice. Love it!

  • @cpegg5840
    @cpegg5840 Před 4 lety +9

    Eternal glory to the Roman Empire! It lives on in the hearts of its admirers! Ave Caesar!

  • @headly21
    @headly21 Před 3 lety +4

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

  • @fabiolamadonna5277
    @fabiolamadonna5277 Před 2 měsíci +1

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