2006-11-17 00:41:51 · 15 answers · asked by pat o 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Neanderthal 'flute' looking good but even earlier artifacts made of bone and stone suggests they could have been used for producing sound, as bird calls.
But percussion must have come before wind or stringed instruments
2006-11-17 10:44:55 · answer #1 · answered by troothskr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NEANDERTHAL FLUTE:
Oldest Known Musical Instrument Plays Notes of Do, Re, Mi Scale
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.
2006-11-17 08:49:01 · answer #2 · answered by algalinpink 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Recent excavations at the early Neolithic site of Jiahu, located in Henan province, China, have yielded six complete bone flutes between 7,000 and 9,000 years old. Fragments of approximately 30 other flutes were also discovered. The flutes may be the earliest complete, playable, tightly-dated, multinote musical instruments.
2006-11-17 11:40:44 · answer #3 · answered by bobbie v 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In biblical terms, the lute or harp, being the first instrument to play different notes.
2006-11-17 08:50:35 · answer #4 · answered by Pope my ride! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The tanbur is the oldest STRINGED instrument in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tanbur_Society
2006-11-17 08:51:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A voice
2006-11-17 08:46:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
We had this question in a quiz on wednesday night,the answer is the flute,we got it wrong,we said drums..:-(
2006-11-17 08:57:02 · answer #7 · answered by Pat R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The voice.
2006-11-17 08:46:22 · answer #8 · answered by liz_in_adam 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
other then the human voice? oh wait...not a musical instrument
drums
2006-11-17 08:46:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
My guess would have to be the human voice.
2006-11-17 08:47:49 · answer #10 · answered by metalmom71 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋