Does anyone know what instrument it is that plays "A Narnia Lullaby" ?

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.:Out.of.the.Blue:. said:
lm porbably solved this for you...but notes aren't for any specific instrumnet...it can be any.
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Whaaaaaa?? I don't understand. You mean musical notes/annotations? They're for every instrument. I think most people know that.
 
Ocarinas

EveningStar said:
It's an Aulos. A form of double reed flute used in Ancient Greece. The one they showed on screen is designed for coolness. It would actually be divided at the mouthpiece to be V shaped rather than a Y shaped, and it would have been substantially longer.

The real life instruments used to produce the sound were two ocarinas.
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Wewe the ocarinas played simultaneously by the same person?
 
Duduk

EveningStar said:
The one in the movie is a prop, designed to look cool. But it's a very impractical design. The tubes have to have separate mouthpieces because it's the sum total of the length of the pipes that determines the fundamental frequency and thus the note produced. The real aulos has mouthpieces side by side, giving the impression of a single mouthpiece.
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The pitch of the music in the film also suggest a much longer pipe. The tubes in this instrument should be 2-4 feet long for the pitch. There are ways to get this low a pitch in a small instrument, and that may be why they used ocarinas to perform the actual music.
 
I love the Narnian Lullaby, it is cool to know what instrument it came. My sister can get fairly close to the sound when she plays in on her clarinet using the piano sheet music. (she can transpose almost any piano music to Clarinet do not ask me how because I do not even pretend to know)
 
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