About the Aulos

An aulos is an ancient Greek wind instrument, depicted often in art and also attested by archaeology. An aulete was the musician who performed on an aulos. The ancient Roman equivalent was the tibicen (plural tibicines), from the Latin tibia, "pipe, aulos". See Wikipedia.

About this page

This page has exercises to learn to play the Aulos. It uses a custom notation-system.

Notation

The notation uses 6 notes per hand. Which concrete note that is depends on the Aulos you are playing. The notation simply specifies notes 1 to 6 per hand.
Note-length is the length of the drawn note. The rhythm is therefore immediately visible.

Contact

aulos@posteo.gr