“After a silence of 3000 years…”

Among the remarkable treasures found in Tutankhamun’s tomb were two ornate trumpets, one made of silver and the other of bronze. In 1939, BBC radio broadcast the trumpets’ music to 150 million people listening in world wide, broadcast to “The Four Corners Of The World”. During the looting of the Cairo Museum in 2011, one of the trumpets had been stolen and has since been recovered.

  • @QuarterSwede
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    173 days ago

    It’s amazing that the sound hasn’t changed much to today’s modern horns. Absolutely awesome.

    • @Bgugi
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      173 days ago

      It’s a big metal tube you make a fart noise into… How could you mess with perfection?

    • @wjrii
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      103 days ago

      It probably helps that it was modern horn players playing a fanfare that sounded more or less “right” to them, but ultimately, as has been said elsewhere, it’s a metal tube you make a fart noise into.