The Painted Trumpets in the Kazanlak Tomb: Parallels with Tutankhamun’s Trumpets, Instrumental and Performance Hypotheses
The Painted Trumpets in the Kazanlak Tomb: Parallels with Tutankhamun’s Trumpets, Instrumental and Performance Hypotheses

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the depiction of the two female trumpet players from the Kazanlak tomb’s fresco and focuses on the instruments themselves. Fol discusses the parallels in estimated size, conical bore shape and funeral rite purposes between the Kazanlak tomb’s trumpets and the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankamun’s trumpets. The author uses physical and experimental evidence from ancient and folk trumpets to support her theory for existence of detachable mouthpieces carved from organic materials in ancient trumpets. She deduces the possible make-up and sound of the Kazanlak tomb trumpets from the recordings of Tutankamun’s trumpets, and from evidence presented in the fresco. She strengthens her 2009 hypothesis about a just-intonation based Thracian mode.

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