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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890 …, 1891
14 lines. Read by computer on 1 October 2026. Printed page 141. See the scan on archive.org.
1was somewhat smaller. That the cornu and buccina were both employed, is proved by Vegecius, who states (III. v.) that calls were sounded by the tuba, cornu, and buccina. The historian Pollux mentions a curved trumpet (σάλπιγξ), and M. Gevaert inclines to the belief that this referred to the buccina. Each legion of the Roman army, Vegecius tells us, had its tubicines, cornicines, and buccinatores; and he describes certain duties peculiar to each.
3Lent by the Conservatoire Royal de Musique, Brussels.
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7LITUUS, in g. This instrument is a facsimile of a lituus discovered in 1827 at Cervetri, the ancient Caera of the Etruscans, and now preserved in the palace of the Vatican at Rome. Trumpets of this kind were in use in the Roman cavalry. The Roman lituus, the shape of which was probably derived at some remote period from the sacrificial ramshorn trumpet, similar to the Jewish shofar, was essentially the emblem of the Augurs, and was borne by them as a staff. From the sacred lituus, the cavalry trumpet, somewhat similar in shape, took its name, and was probably of smaller size and convenient for a mounted trumpeter to sound. The bore of this specimen is cylindrical, expanding at the bell end, which is turned vertically upwards; the instrument therefore is shaped J. The pitch is g, in unison with the g trumpet, which in quality of tone this lituus resembles. The lituus was made in different sizes, and many specimens, both small and large, have been from time to time discovered.
9Lent by the Conservatoire Royal de Musique, Brussels.
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13ANCIENT WAR TRUMPET. Of bronze. The shape resembles U. The total length is 56 inches; inside width across the bell 4 inches; outside diameter of tube at mouth and below mouthpiece 1/2 inch. The mouthpiece being fixed upon the tube prevents the inside of the bore being measured. There are four metal bosses or bands disposed at regular intervals, two of which are mounted with rings.
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