Ancient Greek
Aulos (tibia)
A double-reed wind instrument, played as a pair of pipes. The Roman name is tibia. It is not a flute.
Catalogue
Instruments
Photographs, descriptions, and recordings. Ancient, medieval, and folk instruments treated as objects with a history, not as props.
Ancient Greek
Chelys
The tortoise-shell lyre. Hermes’ invention in the hymn, and the classroom string instrument of the Greek imagination.
Balkan folk
Gaida
A Balkan bagpipe: a bag, a chanter, and one or more drones. The name and the bore change from valley to valley.
Medieval
Psaltery
A flat plucked string instrument of the medieval world, cousin to a wide family of zithers and to the qanun.