Carnyx

[CuffDeep]

Thousands of people have died whilst hearing this.

[ToraXaolin]

How is he able to produce such an array of sounds...? I assume this is without accompaniment?

[GoldenAxeVox666]

@maggott1128 Not just the Picts, Celts from Mainland Europe(Gaul) were earlier ancestors of the Picts, all used such methods and technique in battle.

[raonipaes]

This would incite fear to anyone facing thousands of angry blue painted warriors, wielding barbaric swords and hammers.

[vegetablescankill]

I looked this up because of the sea of trolls trilogy.

[MrThembones]

@vegetablescankill As did most of us.

[segano1]

Looks like the Caledonian War Horn from Scotland.

[GoldenAxeVox666]

@segano1 Most Celtic peoples used such devises in battle, the bagpipes would be the Caledonian successor

[DontGoInThere]

I want one! (of course, finding one is probably quite difficult and expensive, but still.)

[TheSeanpatrickobrien]

hes totaly getting laid tonight!

[GoldenAxeVox666]

The Romans must have shit themselves in terror hearing that sound along with thousands of screaming sword and spear thrusting, half naked, blue woad painted Celts rushing towards them!

[Nerudah]

John Kenny's The Voice of the Carnyx composition: watch?v=NYM0xB5Jrc0

grts

[cunobelinusX31]

@lughlongarm76 That told him (her)! Oh Lugh of the long arm! Fancy meeting a Celtic god on Youtube!

[calicheSCOT]

What a nightmarish sound.

[JMAN2436]

Very stange. Looked it up because of Nancy Farmer!

[metalthrashin666]

Quit confusing Celtic and Germanic. They are NOT the same people.

[Vankrieger]

@metalthrashin666 Very close cousins. Most English and Germans from Germany are Celtic and Germanic.

[EtoileMatutine]

Les Irlandais du sud, les Gallois, les Ecossais, les Bretons peuvent se revendiquer d'un culture Celte. Les Anglais parlent une langue germanique (francisée). Quand au sang (DNA), c'est un joyeux melange......Most English are Celts : no .

[tounecaneton]

@EtoileMatutine merci pour cette intrusion. je crois que c'est devenu à la mode, chez eux, de le revendiquer. alors que dans le fond, ils constituent déjà un gros mélange de saxons et de danois.. qui ont justement chassé les locaux de souche celtique.

[honeyandlemonx]

I looked it up because of Nancy Farmer's Book, I love the Sea of Trolls trilogy =D

[jsingraha]

Amazing Video! Thanks for sharing!

[95jpaul]

Yea I looked this up because of Nancy Farmer's book

[SenatorBuns]

I see now that Caesar's conquest of Gaul was entirely justified

[mangaczar]

I love how nearly everyone looked up this video because if Nancy Farmer's book. I really want to see another book...

[oOWinterNightOo]

i read a book called 'the islands of the blessed' by nancy farmer and it said to look this up in the appendix

[Dreoilin]

Imagine a brightly colored army of plaid wearing, lime washed hair, woaded Celts rushing into battle to the blazing buzzing sounds of this droning instrument. No wonder why it is recorded that the sound of this instrument sounded like death and war!

[NorthLimitation]

@Dreoilin

Plaid wasn't invented until the 15th and was only worn by Scottish Gaels prior to its reinvention in the 19th century.

[astromuff]

@NorthLimitation

Tartan/Plaid like patterns have been around for thousands of years and have been found from Western Europe to the borders of China.

They wouldn't be the brightly coloured stereotypical tartans mind you, quite dull and dark by modern day standards.

[lughlongarm76]

@astromuff You're wrong actually:

"The way they dress is astonishing; they wear brightly colored and embroidered shirts, with trousers called bracae and cloaks fastened at the shoulder with a brooch, heavy in winter, light in summer. These cloaks are striped or checkered in design, with the separate checks close together and in various colors."

--Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian writing in the 1st century BC

Note the mention of "bright" and "various" colors.

[TDHale8991]

it is sopposed to sound like a pictish beast

[TDHale8991]

this was in the book "Island of the Blessed"

[AirsoftComrade]

I'd love to take one of these to a soccer game in Cape Town stadium !

[melc5]

Even when the video stops, it keeps on resounding.chilling indeed

[Toyotomi]

You can imagine hundreds of Gallic/ Brythonic/ Germanic Warriors charging to the sounds of these war trumpets.

Thanks for posting this video. I've wanted to hear this instrument for many years.

[paulwyrd]

That is great! Thanks for sharing :)

[LDNLeon]

chilling

[Intrepid74600]

oh god that is weird...i like it!

[Fernito69]

Like in Asterix comics!

[jeffryjirraf]

If I heard that through the mist/forest, the bailing that followed would be incredible

[tymime]

It seems to me that Stravinsky unknowingly recreated the sound of this thing with "Rite of Spring"...

[2206411411]

If some nations are taking thousands of plastic trumpets to the world cup, the English should pack the stadiums with Carnyx.

[flobrin11]

@2206411411 You meant the FRENCH ! Don't forget carnyx is a gallic creation.

[2206411411]

@flobrin11 The Carnyx is actually an invention of an unknown/unspecified Iron Age tribe belonging to the specific group collectively known as Celtic (although the Celts were a distinct tribe, as were the Gauls). Besides, I'm pretty sure that Africa neither invented plastic nor the trumpet, which means that if it were a Gaulic invention, it would simply not fit the pattern for the French to take it to a soccer match. Remember, there's madness to my methods!

[2206411411]

@flobrin11 It's a bit dodgy, that. First, nobody knows for sure who created the Carnyx -- the Celts didn't keep written records. Second, it's unclear to me to what extent the French are Gauls. Many Gaulic tribes were exterminated to the last man, woman and child by Caesar's armies, according to Julius Caesar's own history. The Gauls would have been similar to the Bretons, who are often looked down on by the French.

[zizek]

@2206411411 Not the English. This is the sound the English heard when the Britons brought them war and death.

[Caradepato2]

@2206411411 More like the welsh. English are germanic.

[curaidh]

@2206411411 why the english? Theyre more nordic than celtic

[ELGRIFFO1981]

Couple of Thousand of these inside Lansdowne Road on International football night, could you imagine the noise? Twould sound pretty damn intimidating and hostile, Thats what ye want!

[19thepyrochilibean]

Wow. Imagine marching 400 miles into a massive brooding forest you've never seen before... suddenly... you hear sounds of 40000 men screaming in insane voices, deep in the woods somewhere, you can't see it but you can hear it, and then quiet, and then hundreds of mad beastly groaning carnyxes deep in the woods.

[viper90988]

@19thepyrochilibean just that thought could terrify an army of spartans

[SoldatSolutrea]

This particular instrument was actually one used by Kelto-Gallic warriors, especially around the time of Julius Caesar and Cicero, who would have encountered the Kelts on the battleground churning out these haunting sounds.

[Liederspass]

Ehmm, the romans dont love the sound of the Carnyx. the carniyx was a war sound from the germanic barbarian people and the romans fear it

[apollosmurphy]

@Liederspass not just germanic tribes but in gaul and us Britons!

[Nerudah]

@Liederspass /sarcasm on

[Dreoilin]

Where can one buy a working carnyx? one with a moveable tongue like this one?

[Twilight438]

wow that is why I'm watching this too lol

[andrew91131]

Nancy Farmer is too good of an author to stop the books at Islands of the Blessed

There is bound to be at least one or two more books before she is done

[BloodStainedSand]

@andrew91131 i saw this for book too lol

[Xloi63]

i think that its good she stopped before the series got stupid

too many good series have been prolonged until the author loses track of characters, plots, and eventually has a demand for too many books, but no new ideas

[andrew91131]

@Xloi63 I still believe that there will be one last book

She hast finished the series, she just left the readers wondering whats next with the ending to Island of the Blessed which then probably gets you ready for the last book

[DancesThroughLife]

@andrew91131 Ah, but the book itself refers to The Island of the Blessed as the "conclusion" on the cover. Sadly, I think the series is done.

[magition49]

hahah i just finished it too and i wanted to hear what a "pictish beast" sounded like..that sounds......strangly amazing..hehehe i wish another 1 wud be there...dont read next sentance->@@!!SPOILER ALERT!!@@i want to know what thorgil and jack do at the school of bards..

[spazout111]

Really cool! I wonder what it would be like to be in battle and hear these as an army came marching over a hill

[Seamus616]

thats sublime! tis like the Irish dord.

as has already said, just imagine the tribes skirling out a group of these before a fight.

[DestinyHeroFlamer]

in the islands of the blessed by nancy farmer, they say that in the Pictish language, the carnyx is called a husshayyu

[moltanem2000]

and im guessing you read the appendix and it told you to search it up on YouTube xP. Same .

[Apparentlyhyped]

lol thats the reason i looked up this vid. im reading that book right now :D

[Xloi63]

i just finished, book was awsome, is there another one coming?

[Apparentlyhyped]

Im not sure. It was a trilogy but it would be amazing to have a another one X3

[moticator]

@DestinyHeroFlamer I prefer that term for it. I just finished that book.

[snopure]

@DestinyHeroFlamer You know she made that up, right?

[astromuff]

@DestinyHeroFlamer

I hope you know that is completely made up? We don't even know what language the Picts spoke.

[AntiochusMegas]

@astromuff Well we're not entirely sure but based on the surviving place and personal names Pictish most likely belonged to the Brithonic (P-Celtic) language families, a view which I would agree with. Aslo the fact that Gaelic was adopted quite readily in Perth and Angus (the Pictish strongholds until Cinead Mac Alpin) would suggest it was a Celtic language. However there some who argue that it was a pre-Indo-European language like Basque.

[elvisheepofdoom]

DUDE! coolest war trumpet ever! I wish I could hear what it sounds like with maybe 30 of those going of at the same time!

[ArmandKarlsen]

To many enemies, I think it sounded like Brown Trousers/Tunics/Togas Time

[viper90988]

@elvisheepofdoom i tell ya even though no one would be out to kill me i think hearing all of them together would make me shit my pants

[viper90988]

@elvisheepofdoom just the thought of that makes me want to shit my pants in fear lol

[megalith6]

antique sound from the Iron Age reverberating across the millennia

[ShirouBloodyRose]

Possessing a heart that is truly celtic, this beautiful instrument causes that heart to race and the blood to sing at the call for battle! Emerging as a mulitude from the distance striking fear into the hearts of those who dare stand in the way of the celts!

[CelticSiobhan]

That is a poem in of itself... but words could never accurately describe the Carnyx

[Incisionator]

That's why I named my band after it.

[JacksRevelation]

I have seen no greater musical instrument for the battlefield.

[fishcat42]

The low frequencies would be good for instilling terror in the enemy, the high frequencies are highly directional and would be good for getting bearings. They'd also make damn good foghorns for ships. The Scots presumably switched to bagpipes to taunt the Romans (who introduced them to Britain), I'm less certain why the Welsh or Irish would have abandoned it. Hmmm. The harsh resonance at low frequencies should make it appealing in heavy metal music today.

[JacksRevelation]

I agree. I wish to feature it in my ambient/postrock band.

[Eponaceae]

and check out the wagging tongue!

[Eponaceae]

what a range of sounds! and imagine a whole load of them together. Truly terrifying.

[thrip]

Awesome