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Warpy

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5. Aztec death whistle or Celtic carnyx?
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 03:14 PM
Jul 14




The second doesn't do full justice to the awful noises you can get out of a carnyx, but it might give you a hint of what a dozen or so of these things with their fearsome animal heads poling above a defensive wall might sound like. Yes, people are doing reproduction instruments now, they're about a grand a pop, er, scream

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