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References - B Brookhaven Lab Expert Helps Date Flute Thought to be Oldest Playable Musical Instrument Bone flute found in China at 9,000-year-old Neolithic site Upton, NY-Researchers in China have uncovered what might be the oldest playable musical instrument.
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Â£27m viola to make history: Stradivarius dubbed 'the finest in existence' set to become the most expensive musical instrument ever sold A viola dubbed ‘the finest in existence’ is expected to sell for a record-breaking £27million – making it the most expensive musical instrument in history. The Macdonald is one of just ten violas made by Antonio Stradivari that are still in existence, and the first to be offered on the open market for half a century.
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- When carbon monoxide touches the detector, it's oxidized by (steals some oxygen atoms from) the chemical salts on the strip and turns into carbon dioxide. The chemicals on the strip are simultaneously reduced (have some oxygen atoms stolen from them) and change color to black.
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The Electric Keyboard and the Synthesizer The origins of the piano are somewhat vague. Distant ancestors of the piano were played even in ancient times, and there are references to possible piano forerunners that date as far back as the year 1157. However, the earliest conclusive information known concerning piano-like instruments refers to the clavichord.
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What's the easiest musical instrument to learn as an adult? The easiest musical instrument for an adult to learn? Probably the kazoo. I’m being semi-facetious here. If you really wanted to learn a musical instrument you would not care about how easy it is. I am 65 years old and am purchasing a Chapman Stick which is a string instrument played by a two-handed tapping method.
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10 Earliest Known Musical Instruments 10 Earliest Known Musical Instruments. The history of musical instruments dates back to the beginnings of human culture.The human voice was probably the first musical instrument, the earliest known invented musical instruments are however considerably different from those what man discovered of course.
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- 47 thoughts on “REPORT: Floyd Taylor, the Son of Johnnie Taylor, Dead at Age 60”. 1  sHOCKED AND stunned at this news. I was a major fan of his father and he reminded me of him in so many ways. 2  I am so sorry to hear of Floyd Taylor passing.
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AKHERON By this city the Acherusian lake pours its waters into the sea. It gets its name from the river Acheron, which flows through Thesprotis and falls into the lake. There also the river Thyamis flows, forming the boundary between Thesprotis and Kestrine; and between these rivers rises the point of Chimerium.
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February 6, 201510 Facts About Piano Fact 4: The piano is actually a relatively new instrument! The first piano constructed was made in 1698 by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Italy. That might sound old, but other instruments such as the flute have been around for thousands of years – the piano is only 316 years old!
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- Flute by Bob Flink [67,000 years ago]. Image Source. The date and origin of the first device of disputed status as a musical instrument dates back as far as 67,000 years old. In July 1995, Slovenian archaeologist Ivan Turk discovered a bone carving in the northwest region of Slovenia.
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- History. The very first woodwind instrument dates back to more than 43,000 years ago. To put that in perspective, humanity did not start farming and domesticating animals until 12,000 years ago. Needless to say, woodwind instruments were among the first tools created by humanity.The first woodwind instrument was a flute carved from the thighbone of a bear. Bone was a natural choice for a flute because after the marrow is extracted, the length of the bone is hollow.he very first woodwind instrument dates back to more than 43,000 years ago. To put that in perspective, humanity did not start farming and domesticating animals until 12,000 years ago.
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Parang Instruments The steel drum is believed to be the only non-electronic, acoustic musical instrument invented in the 20th century. The first steel drum or pan was invented around World War II in Trinidad, off the coast of Venezuela in South America.
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Fiddle History of the violin - Early history. 1  The Persian geographer Ibn Khurradadhbih (d. 911) of the 9th century, was the first to cite the bowed Byzantine lira as a typical instrument of the Byzantines and equivalent to the rabāb used in the Islamic Empires of that time.
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- The santoor is a Persian instrument introduced in Indian classical music. Santoor is a flat instrument made from a wooden resonating box, with 30 to 40 groups of strings, with each group consisting of 3-4 iron strings.The strings are played with two forks, made from wood or metal.ansuri, a.k.a. the bamboo flute, is one of the oldest Indian instruments. A favourite of popular music, it has only recently been used for classical music, becoming the instrument of musicians such as Pannalal Gosh.
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- The oldest playable musical instrument was discovered in China. The  instrument were 9,000 years old, and was a type of flute. The flute  was made from the bone of a bird's … wing. There were other flutes  found in the area, but these were far less playable and intact.
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Brief Flute History In 2004 archeologists from Tübingen University also discovered an ancient flute in a cave located in Germany. This flute was 18.7 cm (7 3/8 in.) long and had three finger holes. It was carved from a mammoth's tusk by European Ice Age dwellers. This flute has been dated to at least 30,000 years old.
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- The instrument has been to this day called the ruan() whereas the name pipa specifically referred to a new version in the same family of instruments, which developed as follows: The pipa (pronounced pee-paa) is a four-stringed lute, one of the oldest Chinese musical instruments with over 2000 years of history. fusion of the original Chinese pipa and the Hu pipa took place such that the instrument gradually became what the present pipa looks like toward the middle of the Tang Dynasty (see the above Fig.1 [1]-[4] and the Note on the right panel). Meanwhile the playing method has been developed and repertoire increased.
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What is the oldest known piece of music? “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” is considered the world’s earliest melody, but the oldest musical composition to have survived in its entirety is a first century A.D. Greek tune known as the “Seikilos Epitaph.” The song was found engraved on an ancient marble column used to mark a woman’s gravesite in Turkey.
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- They have yielded the largest collection of ancient papyrus ever discovered. Among the texts discovered at Oxyrhynchus are plays of Menander and the Gospel of Thomas (an important early Christian document), and the oldest known music notation and lyrics of a Christian hymn. The Greek language flourished in Egypt for a thousand years.
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- Ooh, I've done some research about this for some presentation in college. The oldest known written melody in the world is: (as you'll read in the description, it's from 1400 BCE) Yes, you can actually listen to it.
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- The first piano was invented in Florence, Italy in 1700 by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655 1732), a craftsman who repaired harpsichords for Italy s royal court.
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Listen to the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago Found, WFMU tells us, “in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit,” these tablets “contained cuneiform signs in the hurrian language,” which turned out to be the oldest known piece of music ever discovered, a 3,400 year-old cult hymn.
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- Back to Handbook A Brief History of the Guitar by Paul Guy The guitar is an ancient and noble instrument, whose history can be traced back over 4000 years. Many theories have been advanced about the instrument's ancestry.It has often been claimed that the guitar is a development of the lute, or even of the ancient Greek kithara.he oldest preserved guitar-like instrument. At 3500 years old, this is the ultimate vintage guitar! It belonged to the Egyptian singer Har-Mose. He was buried with his tanbur close to the tomb of his employer, Sen-Mut, architect to Queen Hatshepsut, who was crowned in 1503 BCE.
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History of the violin The oldest confirmed surviving violin, dated inside, is the Charles IX by Andrea Amati, made in Cremona in 1564, but the label is very doubtful. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an Amati violin that may be even older, possibly dating to 1558 but just like the Charles IX the date is unconfirmed.
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Flute A musician who plays the flute can be referred to as a flute player, flautist, flutist or, less commonly, fluter or flutenist. Flutes are the earliest extant musical instruments. A number of flutes dating to about 43,000 to 35,000 years ago have been found in the Swabian Jura region of present-day Germany. These flutes demonstrate that a developed musical tradition existed from the earliest period of modern human presence in Europe. Flutes, including the famous Bansuri, have been an integral part of Indian classical music since 1500 BC. A major deity of Hinduism, Krishna, has been associated with the flute.
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The History of the Violin But the inventor is unknown and will remain open to discussion. Most scholars credit Andrea Amati of Cremona (c.1511-1577), as the first known violin maker because there exists documentation of two violins he created between 1542 and and 1546. However, these instruments had only three strings, like the rebec. The first four string violin, also by Andrea Amati, was dated 1555. The oldest surviving violin, c.1560, is also by Andrea Amati. But other scholars dispute Andrea Amati's claim as the first violin maker and instead award this tribute to Gasparo di Bertolotti da Sal (Gasparo da Salo) of Brescia (c.1540-1609).