The ancient Celtic Carnyx.

For all you Celts... at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient - The carnyx was played at Carlos Nunez concert (by John Kenny I think) - bronze trumpet wind instrument of the Iron Age Celts, used between c. 200 BC and c. AD 200. I guess the bag pipes were scarier but I don't know. You judge.
This festival was awesome. Look it up.

[schizogabber]

People are always saying they wish they’d been born in a different time, but I like living in a time when I can hear stuff like this without being afraid of whoever is playing it...

[Xblademaster]

I have never heard anyone play a carnyx this way and it's super impressive

[solinvictus]

Just imagine the Cesarian army marching deep into Gallia, in places never visited by Roman soldiers, and then hearing these sounds echoing in a misty valley, all around you, thus revealing that you are not alone. This image gives me shivers.

[Doctaphil]

Props to the audience for being respectful as the dude played. Made it 10x better for the carnyx to be the only sound, as though we're all participating in the setup of an attack on Roman legionnaires in the fog.

[Ulkavyn]

The carnyx is called the mouthpiece of the Gods, and hearing those gorgeous haunting undertones that sound like ethereal voices descending from the sky, I’m not surprised… it’s simply otherworldly.

[bikeindublin]

We need to put 10+ musicians to play this instrument at the same time. That would be wondrous.

[cianbierd-hughes]

Put yourself in a 17 year old Roman Legionnaire’s Caligae…being a in a foreign land covered in mist, a place they believed was solely inhabited by Giants and sea serpents and black magic worshippers and then hearing this. THIS.

[GMigas]

imagine youre out with your buds, riding your horses through cold and misty plains and woods, looking for celts to kill, and you hear THIS rolling over the land. you dont know where its coming from, but its slowly getting louder. can you IMAGINE that feeling???

[loganbaileysfunwithtrains]

The Romans heard this hidden in the fog and said “yeah f’ck that, build a wall”

[CloneByDesign]

Imagine growing up in a small village that’s your entire world, and then you join the legion and get marched half way across the known world to a place shrouded in myth and mystery, and then while walking through a misty glade at the crack of dawn, you hear this sound.

[duneydan]

I'm always amazed at how it can go from high to super low pitch.
I don't think I've ever heard another instrument like that.

[bobidderis]

Sounds of imminent death and sadness. Its cold and eerie. Sound of bloodbath coming 😢

[duneydan]

Back in those time there were no highways, no cars, no planes, nothing really noisy. So those things would be heard from so far away!

[imarkgw]

I'm from Scotland and my family are mostly still in the Aberdeenshire region (North-East Scotland) where Celtics, thousands of years ago, would have lived. To see this piece of history in action sends chills down my spine.

The museum in Edinburgh has a real Celtic Carnyx in a display, unfortunately it is not in the greatest of shapes, but most of the pieces are still there. For anyone interested, its name is the Deskford Carnyx

[versetee]

I love hearing it repeatedly. It feels like I am reminiscing something from my past lives.

[davidjohn]

By far, the best performance of this instrument in a realistic manner

[Genesis_twitch_]

That deep tone gave me straight chills down my spine, made my eyes water

[tinyt-rex]

As weird as it may seem, I find the sound of the Carnyx absolutely beautiful

[Brentonlangaigne_]

The dual tone at 0:44 is soo bone chilling

[underworldly]

just gotta say the way this carynx is played is super impressive, the last bit is haunting. seems this was played august 2019, I dare say those who attended this live heard the trumpets of apocalypse. i keep returning to this video just to hear the last bit. incredible