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| A musical
instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of
making music. In principle, anything that produces sound, and can somehow
be controlled by a musician, can serve as a musical instrument. The
expression, however, is reserved generally to items that have a specific
musical purpose. The academic study of musical instruments is called
organology.
All classes of musical instruments save the electronic are mentioned in ancient sources, such as Egyptian inscriptions, the Bible and the many thousand year old Hindu Vedas, and probably predate recorded history. The human body, generating both vocal and percussive sounds, may have been the first musical instrument. Percussion instruments such as stones and hollow logs are another likely candidate. For instance, nine-thousand-year-old bone flutes or recorders have been found in Chinese archeological sites. Information taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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