The lur is a wind instrument traditional Scandinavia, whose appearance is of a type of trumpet without finger holes. It is played out through the nozzle, much like a horn or a trumpet, located one end. With this name, or also known as Luur or lure are called actually two different instruments, although very similar, a more recent, made entirely of wood and used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, and the older one, made of bronze, dating precisely from the Bronze Age, found often in pairs in swamps, mainly from Denmark. After archaeological efforts, have found a 56-toral lurs: 35 in Denmark (excerpts), 4 in Norway, 11 in Sweden, 5 in northern Germany and 1 in Latvia.
is quite likely that the lur was a tool to be used in processions, celebrations, social events, religious ceremonies, etc. With its elegant curve, the lur was around the back of the performer, and was with his companions, a colorful scene. Such a scene is represented, in action, in the rock engravings of Kalleby (Bohuslän, Sweden). Lurer
The Scandinavian and the horns of Ireland has not escaped the symbolic interpretation. Inevitably, its form coincides with that of the horns of a bull. Its role, hypothetically, has been associated with rituals of exaltation of the bull. Although the hypothesis can not be proved, is in the air the question of whether the art of metallurgy, applied to music, was also, at the time that deal of religious art.
The Scandinavian and the horns of Ireland has not escaped the symbolic interpretation. Inevitably, its form coincides with that of the horns of a bull. Its role, hypothetically, has been associated with rituals of exaltation of the bull. Although the hypothesis can not be proved, is in the air the question of whether the art of metallurgy, applied to music, was also, at the time that deal of religious art.
The first references to an instrument called lur come from the Icelandic sagas, which describes it as an instrument of war, used to rally the troops and frighten the enemy. These lurs were straight, with a wooden pipe and about a meter long. They had no finger holes and is played as an instrument of modern metal.
lur A species very similar to these instruments of war have been used by farmers and ranchers in the Nordic countries as least since the Middle Ages. These instruments were used to call Algana and guidance. Its construction technique is similar to touching an instrument of war, but were covered with birch, while the instruments of war were covered with sauce.
is likely that the bronze instrument now known as lur unrelated to the wooden lur was made that way by the Archeological nineteenth century after century wooden lurs mentioned XIII by Saxo Grammaticus.
The bronze lurs back to the Bronze Age Norse probably in the first half of the first millennium BC. A broadly conical tubes are S-shaped, without finger holes. At the end of the tube has a bell, like the brass instruments, and sound more like a trombone. The opposite end of the hood has a slightly flared just as the modern bronze bell, but not to the same extent. A typical bronze lur measuring approximately two meters long.
wood Lur
Lur bronze
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