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![Drawing of the mouthpiece of an ''aulos''.<ref>Based on archaeological remains found at [[Pompeii]]</ref>](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Britannica Aulos Beak Mouthpiece.jpg?width=200 "Drawing of the mouthpiece of an ''aulos''.<ref>Based on archaeological remains found at [[Pompeii]]</ref>")
![Theatrical scene from a [[Pompeii]]an [[mosaic]] showing a performer with an aulos and phorbeiá.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pompeii - Casa del Poeta Tragico - Theater 1.jpg?width=200 "Theatrical scene from a [[Pompeii]]an [[mosaic]] showing a performer with an aulos and phorbeiá.")
![The competition between Marsyas and Apollo on a Roman [[sarcophagus]] (290–300)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sarcophagus Apollo Marsyas Louvre Ma2347.jpg?width=200 "The competition between Marsyas and Apollo on a Roman [[sarcophagus]] (290–300)")
![Attic red-figure [[column-krater]] attributed to the Hephaistos Painter, dating c. 450 – c. 425 BCE, depicting a [[hetaira]] playing the aulos at a [[symposium]] for two men holding lyres, [[Eskenazi Museum of Art]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Attic red-figure column-krater attributed to the Hephaistos Painter, dating c. 450 – c. 425 BCE, depicting a sympotic scene, Eskenazi Museum of Art.jpg?width=200 "Attic red-figure [[column-krater]] attributed to the Hephaistos Painter, dating c. 450 – c. 425 BCE, depicting a [[hetaira]] playing the aulos at a [[symposium]] for two men holding lyres, [[Eskenazi Museum of Art]]")
![Actress singing, actor playing aulos, girl playing [[cithara]]. Antique fresco in [[Herculaneum]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wall painting - concert - Herculaneum (ins or II - palaestra) - Napoli MAN 9021.jpg?width=200 "Actress singing, actor playing aulos, girl playing [[cithara]]. Antique fresco in [[Herculaneum]]")
![Aulist performing for [[Isis]] in funerary art from [[Roman Egypt]] ''([[Royal Ontario Museum]], Toronto)''.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Coffin floorboard depicting Isis being served wine by the deceased, Egypt, Roman Period, 30 BC - AD 324 - Royal Ontario Museum - DSC09735.JPG?width=200 "Aulist performing for [[Isis]] in funerary art from [[Roman Egypt]] ''([[Royal Ontario Museum]], Toronto)''.")
![A male figure playing aulos. Southern theatre at [[Jerash]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aulos male southern theatre Jerash.jpg?width=200 "A male figure playing aulos. Southern theatre at [[Jerash]].")
Wikipedia
An aulos (Ancient Greek: αὐλός, plural αὐλοί, auloi) or tibia (Latin) was an ancient Greek wind instrument, depicted often in art and also attested by archaeology.
Though aulos is often translated as "flute" or "double flute", it was usually a double-reeded instrument, and its sound—described as "penetrating, insisting and exciting"—was more akin to that of the bagpipes, with a chanter and (modulated) drone.
An aulete (αὐλητής, aulētēs) was the musician who performed on an aulos. The ancient Roman equivalent was the tibicen (plural tibicines), from the Latin tibia, "pipe, aulos." The neologism aulode is sometimes used by analogy with rhapsode and citharode (citharede) to refer to an aulos player, who may also be called an aulist; however, aulode more commonly refers to a singer who sang the accompaniment to a piece played on the aulos.
