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Ah... The Timeless Collecting of
Musical
Instruments
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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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