The haunting ancient Celtic Carnyx played for an audience. This is the sound Roman soldiers would have heard their Celtic enemies make.
The haunting ancient Celtic Carnyx played for an audience. This is the sound Roman soldiers would have heard their Celtic enemies make.
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If history taught us anything, it might have sounded good but was ineffective.
Without all the echo and effects though. Probably sounded like an intimidating fart at best
We’re any of these ever excavated in Ireland?
Romans “This is a fuckin mood my friend”
Thats so eerie
Sounds alot like coil.
Historian, Simon O’ Dwyer specialises in these kinds of instruments.
There are a few in the National Museum.
The Carnyx would not have necessarily been Irish.
We had the Trumpa Mór and the smaller bronze horns.
What’s really mindblowing is that in the case of things like war trumpets (Trumpa Mór and Carnyx) there could have been as many as 100 leading an army. Each one would have slightly offset tuning so the effect would be really unsettling. These things are LOUD.
Here’s O’ Dwyer on the Late Late show from many moons ago:
https://youtu.be/o0ExXOoXA8I
Anyone know what event that is?