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http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science ... tten-horn/

In 1737-8, Johann Sebastian Bach composed and performed a cantata, “O Jesu Christ, meins lebens licht” (”O Jesus Christ, light of my life”). Among the instruments called for in the score are “two Litui.” However, the Lituus is a forgotten instrument. No one has played or heard the instrument in modern times; there aren’t even illustrations of one.

So they made something up! Read the article and listen at the above link.

Those are interesting horns the designers came up with. I guess they wont stir up the usual questions like, "silver or lacquer?"

For a number of years, I was one of the clarini trumpeters in The Berkeley Bach Cantata Group. We did not run across the Bach work that requires litui, but did hit one that required a solo cornetto. Our first trumpet player actually had an old cornetto he had acquired in Germany. It was made of wood and had a thin black leather cover glued on the wood. He was an excellent player but, for me, the sound of the cornetto was an acquired taste.

Similar computer applications are known from Vienna and from Hannover. And bern coming up with an alphorn a fifth higher than their folksy variant hardly should be surprising. Doesn’t this one sound like the flugelhorn variant of the clarino?

Klaus