Reproduction of an Ancient Roman Cornu. Used during the Roman Empire between 200 BC to 476 AD.
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2022
- BRASS FROM THE PAST: Reproduction of an ancient Roman Cornu. It was used during the existence of the Roman empire between 27 BC to 476 A.D.. It was mainly used on the battlefield but also was used in the amphitheater for gladiator fights and during rituals surrounding funerals. Its function was primarily to produce a series of sonic signals rather than complex melodic phrases and comprised short, loud and powerful military motifs used to impart orders on the battlefield. And in addition to signal salutes two officers. Listen to sounds from the past. About 2000 years ago more or less.
it was actually invented as a beer bong, then some drunkard started playing it like this
That could very possibly be.🤣🤣 Thank you very much for watching.
@@brassfromthepast5149 oouoou
The sound of incoming civilisation
Yes, this is one of the tools that was used to conquer many civilizations. Thanks Very much for watching.
it’s always pleasing to the soul to watch ancient techniques be used today. a great peek into the lives of those before us
Yes, I agree with you completely. I’m glad I am able to do this and perhaps take you back in time. I’m so glad that you enjoyed watching the video.
As someone who had a fascination with the psychological aspects of music in warfare it’s not hard to see how a group of these would strike fear and boost morale at the same time. The sounds these instruments produce is timeless it’s honestly quite a wonder why in our modern militaries horns are not used. The psychology hasn’t changed there’s still plenty of evidence of that from the Vietnam war through to the Afghanistan conflict.
I’m very glad that you enjoyed watching the video and I appreciate your comments and insight about the horn and how it was used. It is very interesting how important brass bands were in the Civil War. They were used in much the same way as the Romans use this instrument to encourage the soldiers and cheer them on. In modern times we do not really have any instruments playing on the battlefield but at least we still have marching bands and brass bands for each branch of the military service. And watching a military marching band definitely makes one proud to be a part of their particular military service. Thanks so much for your comments and thank you for watching.
I never knew the Cornu was that versatile! 😃
It is quite surprising what all it is able to do. If I had spent more time practicing I could have done much more playing on this video. Glad you enjoyed watching.
@@brassfromthepast5149 Is there any evidence of how I was used in the context of the different sounds. Did the Roman military musicians use it to play music as we se you doing or there were just a few notes they play in terms signalling orders across the battlefield?
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.
Yes, you are very correct. I definitely remember seeing them in that movie. That would have been an awesome sight to see in person. I just wonder what they would have sounded like. Perhaps my video gives somewhat of an idea of that sound. Thanks very much for watching.
What an amazing sound! I have never even heard of such an instrument. Thanks for teaching me something new.
Does this also come apart for storage?
Some of the sound reminded me of the hunting horn greeting that my scout is able to play now. I read your last comment to him, and it gave him encouragement. I was amazed that he played the whole German greeting call for hunters through from top to bottom after having only tried it for less than three weeks. He did say that his lips tired out easier as the horn has a higher pitch. I am sure his trumpet teacher will be surprised to hear it next week. Thank you for all the encouragement and inspiration. Keep up the great work!
Hmm you never watched Asterix and Obelix movies 😂
Hi Annekathrin, Thank you very much. Yes it does disassemble Into three pieces and goes into a case. It sounds like your little scout is really coming along. Yes, he is correct. Going higher will tire you out quicker. Tell him just to continue to practice each day and he will be able to build up his endurance. If he works on long tones and holds the notes out for a long length of time he will also work up his endurance in that way. Thanks again for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.
That is the sound of civilization.
сам по себе ослепительно красивый инструмент, а звук заставляет еще чаще вспоминать о римской империи! thanks for the performance ~
You are very welcome. I am glad that you enjoyed watching the video. Thank you very much.
Amazing! I was just watching a documentary in which a Roman soldier was carrying one of these. I hadn't seen one before and was intrigued. It is very impressive and you play it beautifully.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate that. It is really cool to imagine what it must have sounded like so many years ago. Hopefully I gave you an idea of the sound. Thanks so much for watching.
I just want to say that watching your videos and reading how you comment back to who have written to you shows that you are quite a compassionate and caring person. Thank you for doing these videos and talking WITH us.
You are extremely welcome. It is very important to me to always respond to each comment individually. I always try to answer any questions about which ever instrument I am playing. The main reason I make these videos is for educational purposes. I enjoy sharing my collection and what I have learned with anyone who is interested in brass instruments from the past. It has been a passion of mine for many years to learn about these brass instruments from the past and to provide this knowledge to the next generation. Thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words. It gives me great encouragement to continue what I am doing.
cool sound, very good player. Thank you very much for share, this was very helpful❤
Thank you so much. I am so glad that you enjoyed watching the video.
This is almost like a type of time travel. I’m so glad there are people who do things like this. Thank you!
Thank you so much for your comments and encouragement. It is comments like yours that inspire me to do what I do. I love demonstrating these historic and old horns. Yes, it is like traveling back in time. I often wonder where these old horns have been and who has played them. If only they could speak. I’m glad you enjoyed watching the video. Thanks so much.
Oh, this is so beautiful and impressive, a great powerful sound and such a melodic way to play! Thanks for contributing so much for everyone's musical culture. I love this video. Congratulations dear trumpet buddy!
I really appreciate that trumpet buddy. I’m so glad you enjoyed it. You are awesome!!
@@brassfromthepast5149 Thanks, awesome friend and musician!!!
Great stuff. Thanks for posting.
You are very welcome. Thank you very much for watching.
Это лучший видеоролик с демонстрацией звука и возможностей букцины, который я нашел! Большое спасибо музыканту и автору канала! 🙏👍🌷
Thank you very much. I really appreciate that very much. I’m so glad that you enjoyed watching the video. Please subscribe and enjoy all my other videos. Thanks.
We’re some of the lucky people that got to see this. Thanks for sharing Mr. Goatee Man. 🐐
I am really glad that you have been enjoying my videos. Keep watching for more to come.
What a crazy looking and beautiful sounding instrument.
Thank you very much, I’m glad you enjoyed watching the video.
I just love this instrument! As I play the bugle and the fanfare trumpet on daily basis, I would love to try to play the cornu someday, to see how similar (or different) it feels like when you play it.
I’m very glad that you enjoyed watching the video. It is quite different than playing a bugle or fanfare Trumpet. The mouthpiece is the size of one you would use for a baritone or euphonium. So it plays in that range. It is a lot of fun to play. My curiosity about how all these horns play is what drives me to buy them. I must hold them and play them. I guess it’s an addiction. Keep on tooting your horn. Thanks very much for watching.
@@brassfromthepast5149 Thanks so much for your reply and the info. Keep up thhe good work, your channel is an awesome one to follow!
@@bartomiejjanczak3803 Thank you very much.
I wish that this ancient instrument be played at my funeral.
I have spoken!
That would be quite awesome. It would sure turn some heads. Thank you very much for watching.
Very impressive playing, what an instrument, what a sound.
Thank you very much. It definitely is a unique instrument. I’m glad that you enjoyed watching the video.
Would be nice to have one of these to annoy the neighbors.
It would be perfect for that. You just gave me a great idea.🤣🤣🤣 Thank you very much for watching.
Absolutely brilliant! Suggest that you do a bit of a background video on the instrument and where and how it might be typically used. Some of us are too lazy to read the description.
Look through the videos of toldinstone. There is a video about Roman music instruments. Uploaded several month ago
I will take that into consideration. Thanks for your suggestions and comments. Thanks for watching.
Absolutely amazing sound! Great execution as well! You show really how amazing the sound of the cornu is!
As a side note, I am a fan of the Roman Soldier look and legion and make content with Roman theme to it. After I found this video of the sound I was so amazed that I would love to add a cut of one of the sounds from here to my content as a notification sound and If you wish to give you credit for it.
So I wanted to ask if you would allow me to use a sound from this video as a notification sound in content, streams etc.?
Yes of course. I would feel very honored for you to use the sound from my video. I am glad that I am able to contribute to your posting. I enjoy presenting and demonstrating these horns for educational purposes for people to learn more about the history of brass instruments. I am so glad that you enjoyed watching the video and that you are able to use it in this way. Thanks so much for watching.
Great playing.
Thank you very much. I really appreciate that. I’m glad you enjoyed watching the video.
holy crap this is cool. I want to learn to do this! you make it look so easy, but i suspect it's anything but!
It just takes some practice and learning the horn. I’m really glad that you enjoyed watching the video. You can do anything with enough practice. Thanks very much for watching.
Sounds amazing
Thank you very much for watching.
No wonder all the good fanfares had/has grandeur feel to it! A fan and an admirer from Pakistan. My personal favourite is the fanfare from start up of the old Czechoslovakian television.
Yes, I’m sure fanfares began a long long time ago. I’m very glad you enjoyed watching the video. Thanks very much.
I love the sound.
Thank you so much for watching, glad you enjoyed the video.
You should make a video were you play Yankee doodle on the cornu
That would definitely be rather difficult. But it would sound very interesting if possible.
Great job!
Can you play the LITUUS, an ancient instrument of the roman cavalry?
Yes I can. As a matter of fact I will be posting a video demonstration playing the LITUUS in a few weeks. I hope you catch it. Thank you very much for watching.
Amazing! Two questions please - how are notes played? What was the thinking behind the shape? Thanks!
Hi L18, I didn't make this Cornu but I think I know how it works. This gets a little bit into the fundamentals of wind instruments:
You can make an instrument out of air by trapping a cylinder of air inside a tube shaped rigid object. If you cap the tube on one or both ends, the air inside naturally gains the affinity to vibrate at a particular frequency. This is the fundamental frequency or note that your tube instrument can produce. Longer tubes make lower notes and shorter tubes make higher notes. It all has to do with how the air wiggles inside the tube it acts like a spring made of air pressure.
If you can agitate the air inside at the fundamental frequency that air will resonate strongly and produce audible vibrations, sound you can hear. There are many ways to agitate the air inside. "Lip Buzzing" instruments like Trumpet and French Horn are a family of instruments where you agitate the air by buzzing your lips. The player uses their skill to buzz their lips at a frequency near the fundamental frequency of the tube to create a sound. Another word for this is the natural resonance of the tube/air structure.
Once you have sound, we need a way to play more than one note. This means we need a system to adjust the resonant frequency of the tube. There are many ways to do this. Lip buzzed instruments you're familiar with like Trumpet do this by using valves to change the length of the tubes.
But there's another way to get more notes out of the tube without changing the length. I didn't tell the whole story earlier: There are actually a handful of different notes that a single tube of air can resonate at. The extra notes are all higher than the original fundamental frequency. Those extra notes are called overtones and they happen to be positive integer multiples of the fundamental frequency. So if the fundamental is 1*f, the harmonic notes are 2*f, 3*f, 4*f, ... The air can naturally wiggle at these frequencies too, just not as well as the fundamental frequency.
So the player can access the a few notes of the harmonic scale by adjusting how fast they blow and position their lips.
These harmonic notes land on some music intervals that sound nice in a musical application. It's called the harmonic scale. Or maybe it's not a coincidence and we designed our music system to sound similar to the harmonic scale. But that's a different topic!
Source: Musical Instrument Design by Hopkin
Thanks so much for this information. And thank you for watching.
magnífico, faz mais vídeos, toca uma sinfonia de guerra.
Thank you so much. I will definitely continue to make more videos. I will have to start working on that symphony of war. It should be very interesting. Thank you for watching.
@@brassfromthepast5149 todos os dias tenho vindo ouvir essa melodia
Who builts this reproductions?
thanks for the nice video!
www.medievalcollectibles.com/product/roman-horn-cornu/
Here is a link to one for sale. Thank you very much for watching. Glad you enjoyed the video.
www.armorvenue.com/roman-cornu-horn.html
www.medievalandrenaissancestore.com/p-1683-roman-cornu-bugle.aspx
@@brassfromthepast5149
thanks a lot! 🌹
@@brassfromthepast5149 thanks so much for confirming this! I thought it was the same horn. Medieval Collectibles list it as a prop, and I was wondering if it was the same, since yours looks identical. I will definitely buy one now that I know it plays. Did you replace the mouthpiece for one that suits you better, or is it the one that came with the horn?
Where could I find audio files of these sounds so that I could use it in a commerical project? do you provide anywhere audio files for these instruments you own?
Is it possible for you to use the audio from the video that I made? I know that there are many other videos on UA-cam of people playing the Roman Cornu. You may just have to try to turn those into an audio recording somehow.
@@brassfromthepast5149 Thank you for getting back so quickly, If that's something you are okay with then that is entirely possible.
I was assuming you'd want payment for a license to use it commerical.
@@AllTotalWar You are more than welcome to use as much of it as you would like. I’m glad that I am able to help you in that way.
@@brassfromthepast5149 Wow thank you so much, you are very kind! I look forward to any more ancient instruments :)
I've decided to save up the money for a cornu
That’s very cool. I’m sure that you will enjoy it once you get it.
@@brassfromthepast5149 your probably right
@Brass From The Past I have a harp like insturment called the music maker I got it for $20 surprisingly and it might be a really rare insturment I don't see that many online
That’s very cool. Sounds like you have a very interesting instrument.
Yeah I havent seen many online
Where do you get these kind of instruments?
I have been collecting and restoring different horns for over 15 years. Most of these I find on eBay. Some I find from private collectors and others I find from Facebook Trumpet groups. Thank you very much for watching.
How do you play different tones? I can't see any caps or valves.
I guess how to breath in that thing
Playing this is much like playing a bugle or natural trumpet. You change the pitch by using your lips or embouchure. The embouchure is tightened to be smaller or relaxed to be larger. Thank you very much for watching.
I want to acquire one so badly : (
Here are two links that you can go to to buy one. Thank you very much for watching.
www.armorvenue.com/roman-cornu-horn.html
www.medievalcollectibles.com/product/roman-horn-cornu/
@@brassfromthepast5149 thanks! Any ideas whether or not these are instruments or just props?
@@jones2786 I think that these are the exact one as he has
You should try and get your hands on a "Lur", a danish instrument from the bronze age.
I have been looking for one of those for a long time but I cannot find one. If you have any leads please let me know. Thank you so much for watching.
@@brassfromthepast5149 I have no idea. I know only 56 originals exsist. Maybe you can try and contact a museum. Or try contacting Lurpak. I hope you find one
Crazy thought here for you Mr. Goatee man. Try doing some hit song snippets. 15 seconds of chart #1-15 songs? Get people interested in instruments from yesterday with todays music. *still happy I found this video. Sparked instinct inspiration. (Obviously)*
I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks.
How is it whitou the eco effect?
It sounds just as good playing it in other locations. It just sounds very ominous playing it in this big room with it echoing everywhere. Makes you think about what it may have sounded like out on the battlefield. Thanks for watching.
Oh I've seen these for sale for like $222
Yes, that’s about how much they are. Thank you very much for watching.
200bc to the 400s ad. So basically the entire time Rome could have been considered a true empire. From the Punic wars to their fall.
I’m assuming so. At least that is from what I read and researched. But I could be wrong. Thank you very much for watching.
Hey I’m playing the Cornu but I can’t get higher notes.any tips?
It depends a lot on the mouthpiece that you are using. The smaller the mouthpiece you use the higher you will be able to play. I was using an alto horn mouthpiece when I played the Cornu on the video. However, you don’t want the mouthpiece to be too small because then it will lose its tone. Hopefully this helps.
@@brassfromthepast5149 where did you get your mouthpiece because I’m just using the standard kilt of Athena one. Thank you so much for your help great video
@@MontagneMainSkibi Because I have been collecting and restoring horns for over 17 years I have many different mouthpieces that I can choose from. You might want to go to a music store to see what is available that will work. Or you may have to try to find something online. But I would advise you going to a music store to give each one a test to see which would work best. However, I know that may not be possible. But good luck with that.
@@brassfromthepast5149 thank you
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Thanks very much for watching.
@brassfromthepast was this used in war
Yes, Roman soldiers would march in the front lines with these and they would also use them to signal the troops depending on what their commanders would tell them to do.
I don't see holes of fingering. How does it work?
This horn is played completely with the lip. If you want to play higher notes you must squeeze your lips together more tightly. If you want to play lower notes you loosen your lips. But you are limited in how many notes that you can play with this kind of horn. A natural Trumpet works the same way. Thank you for watching.
@@brassfromthepast5149 Thanks for sharing the knowledge and the clip!!
Is a cornet a small Cornu?
No, not really. The Cornu uses a much larger mouthpiece than a Cornet. Thank you very much for watching.
FORM TESTUDO! FORWARD!!
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Ave Cæsar!
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hello Sir, can this Cornu produce exactly the same sound as at 2'50'' on this video : ua-cam.com/video/wRij5nbhFVI/v-deo.html ?
If not, what can produce it ? Thanks in advance. Mat
Yes, I believe that this Roman Cornu can produce those same pitches. But I believe they did not use a reproduction of a Roman Cornu to make the soundtrack. It sounds to me like it is being made by euphonium‘s. But that is a very good observation that you have made. Thank you very much for watching.
DJ Octavivs
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simpler than a trumpet but looks like it would be great to learn
Yes, it is definitely simpler than a Trumpet but quite hard to center the notes. It uses a mouthpiece the size you would use on a Euphonium. Being a trumpet player I’m not quite used to that. Thank you very much for watching.
Part Bugle / Part French Horn
Yes, it certainly looks that way doesn’t it. However, the mouthpiece is about the size you would use on a Euphonium. Thank you very much for watching.
LEGIO XIIII GEMINA MARTIA VITRIX
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We don't know. Maybe they had no embouchure and were really BAD at it ?
Thank you very much for watching.