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TABLE 4.1.
Intervals on 6-hole auloi (cents) |
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scale extending over a major sixth in the scheme tone + fourth + tone, the fourth being subdivided into three roughly equal steps of rather less than a tone. One of the little Ephesian auloi shows a pattern matching the 3/4, 3/4, 1, 3/4, 3/4 tone series mentioned by Aristoxenus. |
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However, the two Elgin auloi do not fit this scheme. The whole of the main tube of each is preserved with one bulb, and it is clear that even with one or two more bulbs they cannot have been long enough to make the T-IV interval as small as a fourth. If fourths are to be found on these pipes, the most plausible places seem to be T-III on pipe A and I-II on pipe B, with one extra bulb in each case and cent-counts as in Table 4.2. A. C. Baines, experimenting with a replica of pipe A, with a reed extrusion of 5.5 cm. from the bulb, was able to obtain a good pentatonic scale, a c' d' f' (or e') g' a'.82 |
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TABLE 4.2.
Intervals on the two Elgin auloi |
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82 Baines, Woodwind, 200. |
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