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Encyclopedia Britannica



LITUUS

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 800 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LEO-LOB
LITUUS , the cavalry
trumpet
  of the Romans, said by Macro-bins (Saturn. lib. vi.) to have resembled the crooked staff borne by the Augurs. The lituus consisted of a cylindrical tube 4 or 5 ft.
long
 , having a narrow bore, and terminating in a conical bell
joint
  turned up in such a manner as to give the
instrument
  the outline of the
letter
  " J." Unlike the buccina, cornu and
tuba
 , the other military service
instruments
  of the Romans, the lituus has not been traced during the middle ages, the medieval
instrument
  most nearly resembling it being the cromorne or tournebout, which, however, had lateral holes and was played by means of a reed mouthpiece. A lituus found in a Roman warrior's tomb at Cervetri (Etruria) in 1827 is preserved in the Vatican.
Victor
  Mahillon gives its length as 1 m. 6o, and its scale as in unison with that of the
trumpet
  in G (Catalogue descriptif, 1896, pp. 29-30). (K. S.)


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