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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  3 роки тому +294

    Buy your cd here: www.abrahamcupeiro.com

    • @jaxsonxander6470
      @jaxsonxander6470 2 роки тому

      I know Im asking the wrong place but does anyone know of a way to get back into an instagram account?
      I stupidly forgot the login password. I would appreciate any assistance you can offer me!

    • @romanalejandro749
      @romanalejandro749 2 роки тому +2

      @Jaxson Xander instablaster :)

    • @jaxsonxander6470
      @jaxsonxander6470 2 роки тому

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      Seems to take quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

    • @jaxsonxander6470
      @jaxsonxander6470 2 роки тому +3

      @Roman Alejandro it did the trick and I actually got access to my account again. I am so happy:D
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    • @romanalejandro749
      @romanalejandro749 2 роки тому +3

      @Jaxson Xander Happy to help :)

  • @RayfieldA
    @RayfieldA 3 роки тому +2998

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

  • @BeeWhistler
    @BeeWhistler 3 роки тому +14429

    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 3 роки тому +709

      This and you can get these instruments a lot easier nowadays

    • @dolphinsarebetterthanpeopl9758
      @dolphinsarebetterthanpeopl9758 3 роки тому +84

      😂

    • @jod3517
      @jod3517 3 роки тому +147

      Underrated comment

    • @ryanhampson673
      @ryanhampson673 3 роки тому +629

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

    • @comtedebuffon9690
      @comtedebuffon9690 3 роки тому +249

      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

  • @PrisonBrain
    @PrisonBrain Рік тому +800

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому +9

      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.

  • @tom_something
    @tom_something 2 роки тому +2203

    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 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +16

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

    • @Miss-cq6iw
      @Miss-cq6iw 2 роки тому +7

      Thank you

    • @tom_something
      @tom_something 2 роки тому +27

      @@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 2 роки тому +18

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

  • @nathanleary9662
    @nathanleary9662 3 роки тому +9203

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

    • @Teghead
      @Teghead 3 роки тому +557

      How is he producing different pitches with the instrument?

    • @Xezlec
      @Xezlec 3 роки тому +1294

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

    • @Zephyrdaze1819
      @Zephyrdaze1819 3 роки тому +595

      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 3 роки тому +25

      So true !

    • @thardingau
      @thardingau 3 роки тому +170

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

  • @elcatrinc1996
    @elcatrinc1996 3 роки тому +3449

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

    • @serynaide7464
      @serynaide7464 3 роки тому +206

      I'll be your carnyx player

    • @marco-xe9je
      @marco-xe9je 2 роки тому +78

      i swear, when he started i thought he was going to play the incredibles theme

    • @03Venture
      @03Venture 2 роки тому +7

      Yes, please! 🤗

    • @mme.veronica735
      @mme.veronica735 2 роки тому +29

      That tenor crumhorn solo goes hard

    • @user-go3vz1di5w
      @user-go3vz1di5w 2 роки тому +37

      *breaks out hurdy gurdy*

  • @kalashnikov98
    @kalashnikov98 3 роки тому +44

    "Gracchus! Something more cheerful!"

  • @ttonya_ma
    @ttonya_ma 3 роки тому +57

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

    • @Mr.Byrnes
      @Mr.Byrnes 2 роки тому +3

      Wow. Takes you back to another age

    • @gamerforever2126
      @gamerforever2126 Рік тому +3

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @brettpearson9979
    @brettpearson9979 3 роки тому +3987

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

    • @theshuman100
      @theshuman100 3 роки тому +221

      People: getting slaughtered
      The bard:

    • @andrewgarner2224
      @andrewgarner2224 3 роки тому +48

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

    • @StopFear
      @StopFear 3 роки тому +19

      Or it could just as easily make your knees shake

    • @wscottcarter
      @wscottcarter 3 роки тому +24

      Bagpipes mate

    • @eduardocofrancesco4373
      @eduardocofrancesco4373 3 роки тому +27

      @@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"

  • @MusicMajorMaestro
    @MusicMajorMaestro 3 роки тому +5201

    This would have been terrifying to hear in battle

    • @ksoundkaiju9256
      @ksoundkaiju9256 3 роки тому +286

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

    • @Duron0
      @Duron0 3 роки тому +35

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

    • @andreaswieser444
      @andreaswieser444 3 роки тому +18

      @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 3 роки тому +44

      Not as much as an Aztec death whistle.

    • @hortenseweinblatt1508
      @hortenseweinblatt1508 3 роки тому +17

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

  • @annelyceimgrund6884
    @annelyceimgrund6884 Рік тому +107

    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 6 місяців тому

      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 5 місяців тому +2

      Both used in tandem would be awesome.

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому

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

  • @circuslife888
    @circuslife888 Рік тому +103

    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 7 місяців тому +7

      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 2 місяці тому

      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.

  • @paunaic5460
    @paunaic5460 3 роки тому +4230

    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 3 роки тому +53

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

    • @Phelan666
      @Phelan666 3 роки тому +48

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

    • @Khamomil
      @Khamomil 3 роки тому

      They're not all myths.

    • @txukulun1
      @txukulun1 3 роки тому

      @@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 2 роки тому

      Sveiki!

  • @CinemaoftheMind
    @CinemaoftheMind 3 роки тому +2985

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

    • @wildliferox2
      @wildliferox2 3 роки тому +134

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

    • @OphiuchiChannel
      @OphiuchiChannel 3 роки тому +95

      Without the volcano we would probably hear it more often.

    • @ante5544
      @ante5544 3 роки тому +11

      @@OphiuchiChannel What

    • @OphiuchiChannel
      @OphiuchiChannel 3 роки тому +31

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

    • @ante5544
      @ante5544 3 роки тому +130

      @@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.

  • @yokez
    @yokez 2 роки тому +43

    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

  • @AbrahamLincoln4
    @AbrahamLincoln4 3 роки тому +487

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

  • @AnAwkwardBlue
    @AnAwkwardBlue 3 роки тому +1427

    This looks like something out of a Dr Seuss book

    • @k.c.5426
      @k.c.5426 3 роки тому +12

      😂😂😂

    • @Excaliburumbra801
      @Excaliburumbra801 3 роки тому +9

      And it could fit in the Seusidistopian ambients he made somites!!

    • @waylonk2453
      @waylonk2453 3 роки тому +7

      Yes, doesn't it?!

    • @benthomason3307
      @benthomason3307 3 роки тому +1

      OMG I just typed the exact same comment before I saw this!

    • @owenflaherty7516
      @owenflaherty7516 3 роки тому +3

      Look up the sousaphone lol

  • @DavideMCMXCIX
    @DavideMCMXCIX 3 роки тому +872

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

    • @droe2570
      @droe2570 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +15

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

    • @stephanieellison7834
      @stephanieellison7834 2 роки тому +3

      What if you were there yourself in that incarnation so long ago? I felt it, too.

    • @starlegends3092
      @starlegends3092 2 роки тому

      Oooo.
      Where was my ancesters 2000 years ago🤔

    • @starlegends3092
      @starlegends3092 2 роки тому

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

  • @alex1chang1
    @alex1chang1 2 місяці тому +15

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

    • @voraciousreader3341
      @voraciousreader3341 21 годину тому +1

      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!

  • @beautyforashes2022
    @beautyforashes2022 2 роки тому +58

    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 7 місяців тому +2

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому

      Truly an instrument it takes several lifetimes to forget.

  • @SedDelMar
    @SedDelMar 3 роки тому +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 2 місяці тому

      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?

  • @kblskables2877
    @kblskables2877 3 роки тому +293

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

    • @sullieduser6116
      @sullieduser6116 3 роки тому +15

      GONDOR CALLS FOR AID!!!!

    • @tyj9175
      @tyj9175 3 роки тому +10

      @@sullieduser6116 and rohan will answer!

    • @eurasiaacaci.-110
      @eurasiaacaci.-110 3 роки тому +2

      Help the legioners of cannae

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому

      "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."

  • @Reblwitoutacause
    @Reblwitoutacause 2 місяці тому +4

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

  • @dtpiers6136
    @dtpiers6136 Рік тому +7

    Man, its always nice finding some gold in the UA-cam rabbit hole

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому

      The composer: BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGG

  • @brownstonecustomcabinetry5309
    @brownstonecustomcabinetry5309 4 роки тому +745

    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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +4

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

    • @thardingau
      @thardingau 3 роки тому +2

      Any good brass player could do this.

    • @Sphagetti__
      @Sphagetti__ 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @usssanjacinto1
    @usssanjacinto1 3 роки тому +863

    Imagine hearing 30,000 of these before battle.

    • @rarebreed4512
      @rarebreed4512 3 роки тому +12

      the movies are real!

    • @henryrollins9177
      @henryrollins9177 3 роки тому +68

      30.000?

    • @mitchc552
      @mitchc552 3 роки тому +52

      Do you think every troop carried on of these ?

    • @iplaywithrocksforfun
      @iplaywithrocksforfun 3 роки тому +37

      They might have had more like 300

    • @Daylon91
      @Daylon91 3 роки тому +38

      Lmao if they had an army of 4-8 million MAYBE there would be 30,000 trumpeters

  • @kyo.u
    @kyo.u 2 роки тому +38

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому

      알 수 없는 알고리즘이 날 여기로 데려왔지만 .

  • @carmenpaula3781
    @carmenpaula3781 2 місяці тому +3

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

  • @admiralbuttwallace8494
    @admiralbuttwallace8494 4 роки тому +1440

    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 3 роки тому +61

      Nah the carnyx is way more haunting

    • @krisdood777
      @krisdood777 3 роки тому +5

      @@Adrian-zc1iz yep

    • @QockNobblr
      @QockNobblr 3 роки тому +68

      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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +20

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

  • @strangeperson700
    @strangeperson700 3 роки тому +677

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

    • @j.vinton4039
      @j.vinton4039 3 роки тому +40

      War of the fucking worlds!

    • @strangeperson700
      @strangeperson700 3 роки тому +13

      @@j.vinton4039 OMG Yassss!!! (^__^)

    • @ryanjones7681
      @ryanjones7681 3 роки тому +3

      Silent hill

    • @lota13
      @lota13 3 роки тому +19

      literally any trailer has those sounds.

    • @fiorellinobambi
      @fiorellinobambi 3 роки тому +2

      True, It's "arrival" by denis villeneuve

  • @ubermo1182
    @ubermo1182 24 дні тому +2

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

  • @josueantonio3457
    @josueantonio3457 2 місяці тому +2

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

  • @masa-qi8cx
    @masa-qi8cx 3 роки тому +190

    Imagine hearing this during an eclipse.

    • @Fablins-kt9ti
      @Fablins-kt9ti 3 роки тому +7

      Imagine hearing this during an apocalypse

    • @hermitmoth6118
      @hermitmoth6118 3 роки тому +1

      Griff no...

    • @hermitmoth6118
      @hermitmoth6118 3 роки тому

      Imagine hearing this ua-cam.com/video/zSLsTf2TH-Y/v-deo.html during an eclipse!

    • @johnwickinyt3017
      @johnwickinyt3017 3 роки тому

      @@hermitmoth6118 i would love to

    • @R204
      @R204 3 роки тому

      I have an idea now.

  • @VoicesofMusic
    @VoicesofMusic 4 роки тому +1369

    Awesome

  • @carolpountney7627
    @carolpountney7627 9 днів тому +2

    Amazing….a beautiful sound!

  • @user-od3mt6lq7f
    @user-od3mt6lq7f 2 місяці тому +2

    Beautiful. Thanks for posting

  • @TIMOTHEVS
    @TIMOTHEVS 5 років тому +547

    I can hear the legions marching!

    • @krisdood777
      @krisdood777 3 роки тому +5

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

    • @krisdood777
      @krisdood777 3 роки тому

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

    • @krisdood777
      @krisdood777 3 роки тому

      @CipiRipi00 ever heard of sword sheaths

    • @headdog
      @headdog 3 роки тому

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

    • @HO-bndk
      @HO-bndk 3 роки тому

      @@krisdood777 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.

  • @SMARTCATCH2010
    @SMARTCATCH2010 3 роки тому +610

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

  • @michaeldeierhoi4096
    @michaeldeierhoi4096 День тому

    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.

  • @nathanjasper512
    @nathanjasper512 2 роки тому +4

    Finally a compact trumpet I can travel with.

  • @TheConfusername
    @TheConfusername 3 роки тому +564

    So this is what a C-clef sounds like.

  • @giuseppesalvo5755
    @giuseppesalvo5755 3 роки тому +158

    It's brutal and solemn at the same time

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому

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

  • @FoxyfloofJumps
    @FoxyfloofJumps 7 місяців тому +2

    Lovely tone and stability of pitch.

  • @nigel900
    @nigel900 2 місяці тому +2

    Hauntingly beautiful… 👍🏻

  • @zrusit9640
    @zrusit9640 5 років тому +595

    Gracchus, something more cheerful!

  • @sugarfoot84
    @sugarfoot84 3 роки тому +57

    There’s something so majestic and regal about this.

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому

      The only thing more majestic is literal majesty.

  • @elianaaparecidasantos3348
    @elianaaparecidasantos3348 2 місяці тому +2

    Mui encantador e mágico.
    Thank you

  • @Funckle73
    @Funckle73 2 роки тому +8

    The man, the instrument, the sound is glorious🥰

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому

      Truly man hath no sweeteer sound than BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGG

  • @scottpreston5074
    @scottpreston5074 3 роки тому +126

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому

      >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."

  • @jamesberwick2210
    @jamesberwick2210 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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.

  • @user-hg1mh6ne2z
    @user-hg1mh6ne2z 2 місяці тому +2

    Alle Nachbarn werden dieses wunderbare Musikinstrument lieben. Besonders morgens.

  • @uremailingalex
    @uremailingalex 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @malykoth
    @malykoth 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +23

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

    • @binhobrasileiro
      @binhobrasileiro 3 роки тому +3

      @@marko7552 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @LordCasezors117
      @LordCasezors117 3 роки тому +1

      @@marko7552 LMFAO

    • @janaterbio8010
      @janaterbio8010 3 роки тому +6

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому

      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.

  • @Gilmaris
    @Gilmaris 5 років тому +156

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

    • @Fablins-kt9ti
      @Fablins-kt9ti 3 роки тому +9

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

    • @Gilmaris
      @Gilmaris 3 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +1

      We will write for it if more folks learn it.

    • @FVmike
      @FVmike 2 роки тому +1

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому

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

  • @janviljoen7001
    @janviljoen7001 Місяць тому +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.

  • @violainesoublette9333
    @violainesoublette9333 2 місяці тому +1

    Que increible sonido tiene ese instrumento! Maravilloso!

  • @GorgonDrageil
    @GorgonDrageil 3 роки тому +85

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому

      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.

  • @Beccati.sto.trapezio
    @Beccati.sto.trapezio 3 роки тому +65

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому +1

      Once you've heard the sweet sound of BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGG

  • @osoio
    @osoio 2 роки тому +15

    Maravilhoso. Obrigado, Abraham.
    Abraços do Brasil.

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому

      Abraço do BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGG

  • @mr.mushroomman8521
    @mr.mushroomman8521 Місяць тому +1

    How is this even possible!? So incredible! Thank you for sharing this with us! :D

  • @SecularDarwinism
    @SecularDarwinism 3 роки тому +40

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

    • @OffGridInvestor
      @OffGridInvestor 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому

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

  • @riabreed011
    @riabreed011 4 роки тому +74

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

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому

      The composer: BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGG

  • @JohnDoe-oo9ll
    @JohnDoe-oo9ll 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @dukecity7688
    @dukecity7688 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @nickshryock7470
    @nickshryock7470 3 роки тому +10

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

  • @sethfoulk6990
    @sethfoulk6990 3 роки тому +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!

  • @user-jq2yw6lk7w
    @user-jq2yw6lk7w 7 місяців тому +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.

  • @ChuckD59
    @ChuckD59 2 місяці тому +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.

  • @pedrocampinopt
    @pedrocampinopt 3 роки тому +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 2 місяці тому

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

  • @silviadelvalle3947
    @silviadelvalle3947 3 роки тому +15

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

  • @MarioSanchez-tl3wv
    @MarioSanchez-tl3wv 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @kilo3989
    @kilo3989 2 роки тому +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 6 місяців тому

      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 ua-cam.com/video/3NDws2ATZnY/v-deo.htmlsi=glO9RWBmMNifKt88

  • @albertodelpuerto430
    @albertodelpuerto430 3 роки тому +8

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

  • @lazerbeamlightningstorm5844
    @lazerbeamlightningstorm5844 3 роки тому +29

    Im gonna replace my alarm clock with this

  • @parks-music-cafe
    @parks-music-cafe 11 днів тому +1

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

  • @riccardo50001
    @riccardo50001 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @cpegg5840
    @cpegg5840 4 роки тому +173

    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 3 роки тому +1

      Wow

    • @keyosuke
      @keyosuke 3 роки тому +4

      This may be the funniest comment in history.

    • @italia8705
      @italia8705 3 роки тому

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

    • @rubenceriani9696
      @rubenceriani9696 3 роки тому

      @@italia8705 roma per sempre

    • @NightOwl1515
      @NightOwl1515 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @roniesanderson
    @roniesanderson 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +4

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

    • @roniesanderson
      @roniesanderson 3 роки тому

      @@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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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.

  • @vascondi
    @vascondi 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @Eidolon1andOnly
    @Eidolon1andOnly 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @bergerfonkoenig6997
    @bergerfonkoenig6997 3 роки тому +4

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

  • @yamilethcordero7205
    @yamilethcordero7205 2 місяці тому +1

    Impresionante 🎉❤

  • @katiobrien7854
    @katiobrien7854 2 місяці тому +1

    How haunting. Wonderful! Thank you.

  • @ICGedye
    @ICGedye 4 роки тому +8

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

  • @tryhardfinessedyou
    @tryhardfinessedyou 3 роки тому +12

    Impressive is the range from a single horn.

  • @agathaamarilis833
    @agathaamarilis833 2 місяці тому +1

    🇵🇷🥰👌¡Hermoso!, muchas gracias 🌻

  • @-johnny-deep-
    @-johnny-deep- 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @LadyMngwa
    @LadyMngwa 6 років тому +197

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

    • @erick-gd7wo
      @erick-gd7wo 6 років тому +28

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

    • @LadyMngwa
      @LadyMngwa 6 років тому +43

      Thanks, that was immensely helpful :-/

    • @mollywalts2776
      @mollywalts2776 6 років тому +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 6 років тому +7

      I think, bending it a bit also changes the tone

    • @UlimorUdamenta
      @UlimorUdamenta 5 років тому +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!

  • @TheEverydayProgressiveShow
    @TheEverydayProgressiveShow 3 роки тому +195

    Ngl, I heard The Godfather theme music for a second there-

  • @blackfootelite2800
    @blackfootelite2800 Місяць тому +1

    Can you imagine the terror this provoked. Amazing

  • @theshypersistence
    @theshypersistence 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @stephaniecarrow4898
    @stephaniecarrow4898 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @rudolvonstroheim3898
    @rudolvonstroheim3898 3 роки тому +17

    He's playing before a large audience of ghosts.

    • @robertviragh6527
      @robertviragh6527 2 місяці тому +1

      Afterward he'll take her to BLLGLGGHGGGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGGGer King.

    • @rudolvonstroheim3898
      @rudolvonstroheim3898 2 місяці тому

      ​@@robertviragh6527The notification from this reply brought me back to this video and I have no recollection of ever seeing this before.

  • @macsnafu
    @macsnafu 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @AngelCatBaby
    @AngelCatBaby 2 місяці тому +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. 👍❤️🙏🏼🎵

  • @ChainsTheChef888
    @ChainsTheChef888 3 роки тому +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

  • @fernandocavalarianopatriota
    @fernandocavalarianopatriota 3 роки тому +18

    Que som lindo ! Bravo ! Majestoso e imponente !

  • @suewilkinson5855
    @suewilkinson5855 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @BW-fe8dq
    @BW-fe8dq 2 роки тому +1

    This aggravated my normally calm cat to a surprising extent.