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Aulos

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A named double-reed pipe of classical Greek practice, often played in pairs. Not a bagpipe, not a panpipes, and not a published nadaswaram.

Also known as Greek aulos

Hellenic religion

  • Aulos appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias names the aulos among the pipes of Greek cult and contest. A named Hellenic reed-pipe in that travel book, not a bagpipe and not panpipes.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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