early musical instruments

Early musical instruments were made from "found objects" such a shells and plant parts.

The flutes date back at least 35,000 years and are some of the earliest musical instruments ever found.

Many early musical instruments were made from animal skins, bone, wood, and other non-durable materials.

He was credited with having saved a priceless collection of early musical instruments that had become waterlogged.

As such, the specimens found cannot be irrefutably placed as the earliest musical instruments.

Early musical instruments may have used for ritual: such as a trumpet to signal success on the hunt, or a drum in a religious ceremony.

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Studying English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he noticed a crumhorn on a friend's wall and threw himself into an independent study of early musical instruments.

One of the earliest musical instruments utilizing a ring modulator may be the Melochord (1947) built by Harald Bode.

Most were avid collectors - of porcelain, Picasso, early musical instruments, Italian Primitives, tapestries, rare books - and nearly all are known to have survived the war.

There is an outer half-circle of the twenty-four old men from the Book of the Revelation, holding long-necked jars of perfume or playing on early musical instruments: this is Heaven.

Early musical instruments, choreography and costumes in the classic Greek mode, which was the type of dress adopted in such medieval morality plays, add to the authenticity of the production, which takes about one-and-a-half hours.

Inspired by earlier musical instruments like the lute, Ken Parker began experimenting with hardwood exoskeletons to provide rigidity to the instrument but hardwood was too difficult to work with and did not achieve satisfactory results.

TOKYO QUARTET Early music and early musical instruments of Japan are the special focus of the Yonin-No-Kai Tokyo Quartet, on its 18th world tour since it was founded 30 years ago.

This book, arising from a conference held at the McDonald Institute in 2003, brings together archaeologists and specialists in early musical instruments and acoustics in an attempt to unlock some of the meaning latent in the acoustics of such early structures and spaces.

The oldest unequivocal examples of prehistoric art date to this period, the Aurignacian and the Gravettian periods of prehistoric Europe, such as the Venus figurines and cave painting (Chauvet Cave) and the earliest musical instruments (the bone pipe of Geissenklösterle, Germany, dated to about 36,000 years ago).