Salpinx

Salpinx (Gk.) 1. straight conical trumpet of ancient Greece, with narrow bore, terminating in a slight flare. According to Gk. tradition, it was of Tyrrhenian origin and seems always to have been considered a foreign instr. In the Iliad it is mentioned twice, then not again until the 5th c. B.C. by Bakchylides. The earliest representation is on a slightly earlier vase, where it is shown played with a *phorbeia, playing technique perhaps taken over from the aulos, which it replaced as a military…