Bronze-Age Irish Horn

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My brother, who, some years ago decided to participate in the Scottish club activities, got to where he is a reasonably respectable piper, and invented Rocket Reeds, gave me a call tonight to direct my attention to the Bronze-Age Irish Horn. Some samples, played by Wicked Tinkers, can be found here:

http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/wickedtinkers4-22.m3u

http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/wickedtinkers3-03.m3u

I found this bit of info:
Over 100 horns from the Irish Late Bronze Age (900-600 B.C.) survive and a quarter of these can be sounded. They fall into two groups: end-blown horns and side-blown (Fig. 5). The end-blown horns have either one or two pieces with a cylindrical tube which inserts into a conical bell. Of the side-blown horns, none can be made to sound more than one note. The range is from g to d#.