Already in ancient times people loved delight your hearing musical sounds. Enchanting sounds of gold cittern heralded the emergence of the golden-haired Apollo. No one could compete with him in the game at this marvelous musical instrument, and when the Phrygian satyr Mars dare to compete with him in the music and came to this contest with a musical instrument - a reed flute in hand, he paid dearly for his insolence.
The oldest musical instruments and horns tweeters that date back to the Upper Paleolithic (which is 2,522,000 BC!) Found in Hungary and Moldova.
In ancient times, people not only knew how to make musical instruments and compose music, but even recorded her musical signs on clay tablets. The most ancient musical notation, extant refers to the XVIII century BC. Clay tablet with Musicrecords found during excavations of the Sumerian city of Nippur (in present-day Iraq).
Stone Age people made their musical instruments from a variety of things. One of the oldest "musical instrument" is itself a human body. The first sound is due to a knock or blow to the various parts of the body (such as the breast or thigh). Gradually arise more and more tools that are used for Stone Age people. They used them, such as hunting, to warn yourself from danger. Thus, these instruments were used as objects for mutual communication.
With what started musical instruments?
String - from hunting bow, wind - from the shell, horn, reed. But the venerable age belongs, of course, percussion instruments: they have arisen among primitive people who have been to accompany their dances rhythmic beats one stone on another. The most famous musical instruments of primitive man: - Dudka bone. - Flute bone. - Animal horns. - Pipe made of shells. - The drum is made of animal hide. - Rattles made of stone, wood. - Musical bows (bows hunters)
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