Talk:Aulos

Captured reed

Did it have a captured reed, like a practice chanter or crumhorn? Badagnani 22:59, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

No. It was not a windcap instrument. --Aaron Walden 08:10, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Merge proposal

The most recent edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary suggests that the aulos and the tibia are the same instrument and treats them in the same article (3rd edition, p. 1005). The Wikipedia article Aulos already lists the Latin tibia in the lead. The only information that the article Tibiae contains that Aulos does not is the Ginsberg-Klar article. These articles ought to be merged. I would be happy to repair the disambiguation page and the cross-wiki links. Comments? Camenae (talk) 15:32, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Nemo obstat. I shall redirect Tibiae and fold the meager information there into this article. Camenae (talk) 01:00, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Mythic origin

This whole section seems to have been plagiarized. See "The Allegory to the Invisible Ring" sidebar here and this entire page. --Khajidha (talk) 14:20, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Other way around, except the passage is attributed: the Church of California site cites Wikipedia as its source with a link at the bottom. I'm guessing the other one got it here as well, but please feel free to investigate further. Cynwolfe (talk) 16:45, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Missed the attribution. The passage still reads like an excerpt from an essay or thesis and not like an encyclopedia article ("we might surmise..."). --Khajidha (talk) 14:01, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Found this, but according to some other listings of the book it was compiled from various websites including wikipedia. This passage dates back to the earliest version of this page, but it just doesn't seem like it should be here. At least not in this form and this voice. --Khajidha (talk) 14:17, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I find that "we" very irritating: some scholars use first-person plural, I guess because they think of themselves as conversing with an inner circle, and so it creeps into WP. Agree with the criticisms. There should be plenty of RS to improve the article, so best wishes. Cynwolfe (talk) 14:30, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Related topic. The page blathers for awhile about the 19th century Apollonian v Dionysian distinction but the original myth seems much more straightforward. Midas was a king in Asia Minor; the myth seems to simply reflect a preference for different kinds of music in different areas. Right now, that's just WP:OR; be nice if somoene could be kind enough to find a scholar who's noticed the same point (if you have to write one, contact me so I can get coauthor status). — LlywelynII 09:14, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Aulete

There's a stub on the aulete that has no sources. I don't see any reason to have a separate article on the player of the aulos. If someone wants to develop such an article, have at it, but for now I'm changing that stub to a redirect here. Cynwolfe (talk) 15:16, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Similar instruments

Are there any similar instrument like the aulos outside of Europe? Komitsuki (talk) 06:35, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

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Edding

I could have done a better job at it. Kelly3479 (talk) 05:28, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

More details, please

Was the aulos usually made of wood, bamboo, reeds, metal, bone? (I added "bone" because of the Latin word "tibia".) How was it made? How were the finger holes spaced?

Was only one pipe played, and the other pipe vibrated in resonance? Or did the aulete produce two notes simultaneously, one on each pipe?

Have archeologists come across auloi? If so, photographs would be nice, and a pointer to a musuem where one could see one.

Solo Owl 04:38, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Monaulos

The current version of this article says:

A single pipe without a reed was called the monaulos.

But I don't think that is accurate. Wasn't the monaulos actually a single (rather than double) aulos, with a double reed? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 21:35, 19 April 2023 (UTC)