Aulos
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In Ancient Greek music, an aulos was a wind instrument often depicted in art and also attested by archaeology.
Man playing an aulos: Attic red-figure cup painted by the Euaion Painter, 460 B.C.–450 B.C.
Drawing of a plagiaulos.
The competition between Marsyas and Apollo on a Roman sarcophagus (290–300)
Theatrical scene from a Pompeiian mosaic showing a performer with an aulos and phorbeiá.
Double reed
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A double reed is a type of reed used to produce sound in various wind instruments. In contrast with a single-reed instrument, where the instrument is played by channeling air against one piece of cane
Aulos
…depicted in art and also attested by archaeology. Though the word aulos is often translated as "flute" or as "double flute", the instrument was usually double-reeded, and its sound—described as "penetrating, insisting and exciting"—was more akin to that of modern woodwind instruments such as oboes or bagpipes with…
Bassoon reeds, showing the lens-shaped opening (bottom left)
Bagpipe of Portugal reed (gaita transmontana)
Bassoon reed
Bombard reed