What was the first musical instrument ever invented, and how did it happen?

Answer 1

prob a mistake.

Answer 2

Percussion instruments, drums, shakers used for ritual events and later for communication over distances. The drums were first hollow logs beaten with a heavy stick. Like the wheel, the date of invention is vague. In close competition according to anthropologists was the flute in a primitive form, shown on hyroglyphs from many lost cultures, but by the time hyroglyphs were appearing, log drums were part of oral history.

Answer 3

In 1996, excavation of a Neanderthal cave site in northwestern Slovenia uncovered, what appears to be, the section of a transverse flute made from the femur bone of a young bear. This bone fragment was perforated with four round holes whose shape and alignment strongly suggested that it was, indeed, the remnant of a Neanderthal wind instrument. The artifact is dated between 43,000 to 82,000 years old, making it the flute ever to be associated with Neanderthals and oldest musical instrument ever found. (It plays Notes of Do, Re, Mi Scale.)
(http://growabrain.typepad.com/growabrain/first_ever/index.html)


So, to answer your question, the first musical instrument ever invented seems to have been the Flute. :) Cool question, by the way, it was interestin to read bout this stuff. Hope this info helps. :)

Here´s a link for more info and a pic about it:

http://www.shakuhachi.com/CM-Fink-NEANDERTHAL.html

Answer 4

the first instrument invented in America was the banjo,and some people argue that it was the only true instrument ever invented here.

Answer 5

don't know if it was the first one.. but some kind of flute or recorder type thing? drum makes sense.. another one could possibbly be a reed instrument.. you know how you can put a blade of grass between your two thumbs and blow so that the blade vibrates much like a double reed instrument..e.g oboe or bassoon

Answer 6

lol Mary got it! for instrument, that's nothing to do with human organs, is drum, i guess! i think they saw the tree branches hiting each other and invent to hit something that produce sounds. it's pretty obivous that still in Africa, there are people whose only muscial instrument is something like a drum.

Answer 7

Probably an early Moog synthesizer. If you look carefully you can see one of the man-apes playing one in the background in the opening scenes of '2001 - A Space Odyssey'.

Answer 8

Probably back in caveman times by blowing through a hollow piece of wood

Answer 9

A blade of grass. By putting the grass flat between your lips and blowing, u can make a whistling tune.

Answer 10

Probably a basic drum of some kind. Definitely something percussive.

Answer 11

The One Eyed Piccolo--Eve played it to Adam!! It was a blue vein sonata.