Scientists recreate Bach's forgotten horn

[redbrian3655]

"cumbersome!!".. that is one good explanation as to why the lituus. This was very interesting. I knew nothing of this instrument, though I knew Motet 118 well. I am glad that time and money is spent on valuable historical research. Has the final recording been made of #118 with this lituus yet? Thank you. BRIAN

[AndyHirt]

This is an ALPHORN!! An alphorn looks like a lituus, but is about twice as long. Basically, a lituus is very similar to a hornpipe (a pipe with a sheep's/cow's horn shoved on the end). With A=415, Bach's instrument would be even longer. What they made is a long lur. I appreciate the technology. However, if you wanted to make the instrument cheaply, buy an alphorn (not cheap) or have a Norwegian make a long lur. Bach probably just gave a folk instrument a fancy "classical" name.

[BethDiane]

Why not just use an alpenhorn? these don't look that different!

[dubhslaine2]

...Ricola!

[saladshootavvv]

yea, rediscovering lost art, music, and culture are a waste of money.......idiot

[saladshootavvv]

First of all you act as if those other things you mentioned were not funded due to the funding that this project received. Which is a pretty bold assumption especially since you could disprove it easily. Secondly, preserving cultural history should be a priority for everyone and not just "music-humpers".

"that apparently wasn't very good, because the piece doesn't even exist today"

It's not all about the instrument itself, it's about the sound that it makes and capturing a time period.

[saladshootavvv]

also by your logic and your obvious disdain towards cultural history, do you find any benefits or advantages in art at all or are you one of the new "art is a luxury" drones that seem to make up most of the youth today? I really am curious and not just being a jerk...well, maybe a little

[reaperofgenocide]

Yet wasted tax dollars, pop culture that promotes violence, sex, and drugs, fast food, and gambling is not?? Depending on how much money is truly spend in rediscovering lost art and music it might seem as a waste of money. It certainly wont top wasted govt spending such as a u.s. bail out of 700 bill which they chosen because they wanted a really high number. But lost culture IS important because of info. Such as missing history or like in ancient egypt how they had the bagdag lightbulb.

[perigee]

Did you even listen to the entire program? Around 5:40 or so, one of the interviewees talks about industrial applications. Essentially non-invasive acoustical measurements could help us figure out other related tubes, ducts, valves and flanges by listening to sounds and echoes.

I don't know about you, but this sounds to me like a "science dividend" that is actually useful to non-artists, even if you do have this weird bias away from the usefulness of pure cultural research and development.

[5botball]

Learn an instrument why are you talking then?????

[Rakuenless]

Shame they removed the audio clip of the lituus just by itself. I heard it the other day, but now that I've wanted to show some other people, it's already been taken down.

[drcronos]

Primero. No me interesa que pongan todo el tiempo el logo. Segundo, no hay video, no veo al intrumento en acción. Tercero, y lo más importante, además de que casi no se escucha, no puedo reconocer adecuadamente el nuevo sonido del instrumento (ni siquiera sé si está ahí), lo presentan con otros insttrumentos y es imposible descubrirlo. Es decepcionante.