Aulos

Aulos pl. auloi (Gk.), literally “pipe,” the divergent *double pipe of the ancient Greeks, most important of their wind instrs., later called tibia by the Romans. The aulos consisted of a slender cylindrical tube usually of wood or ivory (the bombyx), with an ovoid barrel called holmos at the upper end, generally continued by a short conical hypholmion in which the reeds (glottai) were inserted. Evidence available today shows that it was played with a double reed. The number of fingerholes…