TY - JOUR AU - Nordquist, Gullög PY - 1996/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Salpinx in Greek Cult JF - Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis JA - Scripta VL - 16 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.30674/scripta.67232 UR - https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67232 SP - 241-256 AB - The salpinx is not often treated by scholars of ancient Greek music, because it was mainly a military instrument. The instrument was usually not used for musical purposes, only for giving signals. In Greece the salpinx is known from the 8th century onwards. The Greek salpinx was an aerophone, usually made of bronze, and consisted of an 80 to 120 cm long, straight, tube with cylindrical bore, and with a conical or more often bell-shaped final, kodon, which could be made of bone. The bone had to be fired in order to get the right acoustic qualities, according to Aristotle. Salpinx is usually translated as "trumpet", but the type of sound generator it may have had has been discussed. ER -