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Ancient Flutes
rowers and to mark the time. Special names were given to each variety of flute-players and their instruments—Fetis mentions thirty-seven—according to their special employment. Thus players at funerals were called "Tumbauloi," "Paratretes," or "Siticenes," and in order to check extravagance it was found necessary
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Fig. 6.—AULETES. (From the frieze of the Parthenon.)
to limit their number to ten. Those employed at weddings were termed "Hymeneemes"; the horse-keeper's laurel flute was called "Hippophoiboi"; the sailor's flute was "Trierikos." Others again were named after the country whence they originated—the Lybian flute, the Berecythian or Phrygian flute, etc.
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