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diaulos

The diaulos was an ancient Greece wind instrument composed of two pipes (aulos), which were played similar to an oboe. The diaulos is basically two reed pipes put together The two pipes were connected at their base and often of different lengths. Circular breathing was sometimes used by the performer.

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diaulos

Youth playing a diaulos (double-reed pipe), perhaps participant in Dionysos procession. Attic red-figure lekythos. Bowdoin Painter, 480-460 BC. Prague, NM-H10 773.

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Field
aulos · sets of oboes with cylindrical bore
Region
Greece

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The diaulos was an ancient Greece wind instrument composed of two pipes (aulos), which were played similar to an oboe. The diaulos is basically two reed pipes put together The two pipes were connected at their base and often of different lengths. Circular breathing was sometimes used by the performer.

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