Note 97: — XXV.—MUSIC AND DANCING. (Wall-Cases 54-56.)
Reading edition
Flute-playing was very popular with the Romans, among whom it was considered the proper accompaniment of every kind of ceremony.97 For military purposes they used several other wind instruments. Two bronze mouthpieces (No. 649) in Case 55 may perhaps come from long straight trumpets (tubae). The Roman curved horn (cornu) is represented by two large specimens in bronze (No. 650) placed at the top of Cases 55, 56. The terracotta bugle in Case 55 is probably a model of the Roman bucina (No. 651).