Researchers on Ancient Mesopotamian Music have been interested above all in chordophones and percussions in the area of organology. Certainly, we have few contributions about Mesopotamian aerophones. In this communication, we will try to reflect on one of the most complicated things about Mesopotamian aerophones: their sound. For that objective we will do an overview about the different aspects of Mesopotamian aerophones in the Sumerian texts. Specially, we will examine this sentence from the hymn Šulgi B: "I do not make the reed pipe sound like a rustic pipe" (gi-di gi sipad-gin7 nu-um-me). What was the sound of this "rustic pipe"? The analysis of the term "sipad" offers a very rich debate which places us in the origin, for instance, of the polemic character of the aerophones and their sound in Classical Antiquity, therefore, in the beginnings of our culture.
Daniel Sánchez Muñoz (Wed,) studied this question.