From the April 17th BBC "Recreating the sound of Tutankhamen's trumpets" by Christine Finn.
When Howard Carter entered King Tut's tomb in 1922, along with all the other stiff, they found two trumpets, one silver and the other bronze. They had been left in the tomb in the Valley of the Kings 3,000 years ago.
They were at the Cairo Museum until the uprising a few months ago and the bronze one was stolen. It is one of the oldest surviving musical instruments. Fortunately, the silver one was on tour. Even better, the bronze one was recovered.
Both are fragile and rarely played. Back in 1939, the Egyptian Antiquities Service and the BBC broadcast both of the trumpets being played to an estimated 150 million listeners.
If you go to the article, you can hear the broadcast. To think that King Tut may have heard these played gives you a real sense of history.
Search King Tut's Trumpets.
Give It a Listen. --DaCoot
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