A lur, also lure or lurr, is a long natural blowing horn without finger holes that is played with a brass-type embouchure. Lurs can be straight or curved in various shapes. The purpose of the curves was to make long instruments easier to carry (e.g. for marching, like the modern sousaphone) and to avoid directing the loud noise at nearby people.

A lur or lur horn is a wind instrument cast in bronze dating to the Late Bronze Age (c. 1000 BC). Most of these lurs have come from Denmark, where a total of 39 have been found. Sweden, Norway and northern Germany too have produced examples.

lur, bronze horn, or trumpet, found in prehistoric Scandinavian excavations. It has a conical bore that extends in length from roughly 5 to 8 feet (1.5 to 2.5 metres) in a bent S-shape (somewhat resembling a mammoth tusk) and ends in an embossed metal disk.

The "Wismar horn" from Germany - an older lur type. While digging peat in 1886, tenant farmer Ole Rasmussen found two fragmented lurs at Rørlykke Mose (ca. 1100-900 B.C. Mus.nr. B3671-2). These lurs has more of a S-shape than the "Wismar horn".

These lurs, several examples of which have been discovered in longboats, are straight, end-blown wooden tubes, around one metre long. The viking lur parts were held together with willow rings. At Oseberg, Norway (close to where I live) they found a grave with a Viking ship.

May 19, 2017 · The lur (pronounced like the fishing lure) is a natural blowing horn that has no finger holes. The very first ones originated during the Bronze Age (thousands of years BC), and were used as war instruments to marshal troops and to scare the enemy.

The Lur was the battle horn of the Vikings; first mentioned in the Icelandic Viking Sagas. Here I will detail the design and construction methods I used to make two Lurs.

There are two types of lur (old nordic = luðr), one of metal (cast in bronze) and one made of wood. The oldest one, the bronze lur s, dates from the Nordic Bronze Age (1500 - 500 B.C). These bronze lurs were found in the south of Scandinavia and north of Germany.

Some lurs have small rattling-plates at the mouthpiece or the ornamental plate, and some have a carrying-chain. The lurs are masterpieces of casting. Musically they are more simple. Even today at least twelve of the Danish lurs can be played. Their sound is pleasant and sonorous.

The first find of lurs was made in 1797 in the bog Brudevælte Mose in northern Zealand. During peat-digging in the bog the farmer Ole Pedersen found ‘6 curved brass horns’. In other words he found the top parts of the lurs. A good week later, in the same bog, he found the six mouthpieces that belonged to them.