Click on each picture to hear or see the instruments being played.
The earliest music was probably clapping hands and singing. Soon people also began to bang on hollow logs and knock sticks together to make louder sounds; these were the earliest percussion instruments.
Many countries made primitive musical instruments. Some examples of primitive percussion instruments are rocks, bones, logs, wooden or bone scrapers and drums, seeds, and shells. Examples of primitive string instruments are musical bows and lyres. There are even examples of early wind instruments like bone flutes, wooden flutes and bamboo flutes.
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