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Musical Instruments from Ancient Rome

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Idugit says

What did you want to know about the musical instruments? I can't find the question.

If you were asking what did they play, then there were several different kinds of flute. There are carvings showing people playing a kind of flute like two conjoined penny-whistles. They also had tambourines; sistrums, an Egyptian instrument originally, which you shook to make a musical jangling noise, lyres and harps, mostly lyres (something to do with the way that they were strung) and something called a water-organ which nobody seems to know much about.

The Emperor Nero was a great patron of the theatre and he was (in)famous for singing and playing the lyre.

Hope that this is what you wanted to know.

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