Lur

A lur, also lure or lurr, is a long natural blowing horn without finger holes that is played with a brass-type embouchure.

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.

These lurs, several examples of which have been discovered in longboats, are straight, end-blown wooden tubes, around one metre long.

A kind of lur very similar to these war instruments has been played by farmers and milkmaids in Nordic countries since at least the Middle Ages.

The word lur is still in the Swedish language, indicating any funnel-shaped implement used for producing or receiving sound.