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- Paleolithic flutes with hand-bored holes are the earliest known identifiable musical instruments. A number of flutes dating to about 53,000 to 45,000 years ago have been found in the Swabian Jura region of present-day Germany, indicating a developed musical tradition from the earliest period of modern human presence in Europe.
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The standard method of instrument classification was introduced in 1914 by Curt Sachs and Erich von Hornbostel. It is based on the acoustical principles of an instrument’s sound, regardless of its stylistic or cultural context.
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator. The pitch of the vibration is determined by the length of the tube and by manual modifications of the effective ...
May 24, 2019 · Johann Christoph Denner, a famous German woodwind instrument maker of the Baroque era, is credited as the inventor of the clarinet. Double Bass. Eleonora Cecchini/Getty Images. The double bass goes by many names: the bass, contrabass, bass violin, upright bass, and bass, to name a few.
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Double reed instruments use two precisely cut, small pieces of cane bound together at the base. This form of sound production has been estimated to have originated in the middle to late Neolithic period ; its discovery has been attributed to the observation of wind blowing through a split rush.
The history of Western wind instruments. In the field of organology, or the study of musical instruments, the name Curt Sachs looms so large that, despite the studies undertaken since his death in 1959, no one has yet achieved his eminence. The origins of musical instruments extend to prehistoric times, and frequently only fantastic legends ...
The former Hebrew term is believed by some to refer to a wind instrument, or wind instruments in general, the latter to a stringed instrument, or stringed instruments in general. As such, Jubal is regarded in the Judeo-Christian tradition as the inventor of the flute (a word used in some translations of this biblical passage). [36]
Aerophones. Over twenty thousand years ago primitive man noticed that a piece of hollow cane or dried up fruit shell could make a sound if blown in a certain way. If vocal music was the first man-made music and percussion the second, wind instruments would undoubtedly be the third (and the first melody-making instrument).
