Tutankhamun: Egyptian musical instrument
The tutankhamun’s trumpets are a pair of trumpets that are found in the burial chamber of Tutankhamun, the King of Egypt. The trumpets, on...
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The tutankhamun’s trumpets are a pair
of trumpets that are found in the burial chamber of Tutankhamun, the King of
Egypt. The trumpets, one is of sterling silver and one of the bronze and is
taken to be the oldest operational trumpets in the world, and the only known
surviving example from the country. The musical instruments were found in the
year1922 by Howard Carter. The both trumpets were sounded for the first time in
over 3,000 years to a live audience of approximately 150 million listeners
through a BBC broadcast that is aired on the 16th of April, 1939.
The musical instruments were performed by a Bandsman known as James Tappern of
the Prince Albert’s own 11th Royal Hussars regiment. The sound
recording was recently featured and can be heard on the radio program series of
BBC known as “Ghost Music”.
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There have been some arguments made
by Zahi Hawass, the former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs and the
Egyptologist Hala Hassan, the curator of the Tutankhamun collection at the
Museum of Egypt, that the musical instruments has magical power and have the
immediate ability to summon war. The evening the trumpets were first played in
1939, the power cut out at the Cairo Museum five minutes before the time
scheduled to air it, and the BBC were forced to record the sounding of the
trumpets with the use of candle light. Five months after the broadcast of the
sound from the musical instrument, Britain entered World War II and the
European war started. Again, the musical instrument have been performed before
the 1967 six day war, before the 1990 Persian gulf war and most recently, the
bronze version of the trumpets was performed one week before the Egyptian
revolution of 2011 by a Cairo museum staff member to a Japanese delegation.
This bronze trumpet was stolen from the museum during the Egyptian looting and
riots and was returned mysteriously to the museum some weeks after.
The silver version of the musical
instrument has a bell diameter of about 4 inches and a length of about 22
inches. The bronze version of the musical instrument has a length that is about
18 inches and a bell diameter of about 4 inches.
