| Music and musical instruments are used to create | | | | This led to the development of instruments for |
| sounds that are pleasing to hear and anything that | | | | producing melodious sounds as before this melody |
| produces sounds serves as musical instruments. | | | | was only associated with singing. The earliest |
| Music has always been part of our cultural | | | | form of melody was produced by pounding and |
| heritage and different types of instruments have | | | | stampeding tubes and drums which produced |
| evolved during the ages. | | | | different sounds and notes. One would answer |
| The origin of the first musical instruments dates | | | | with a clear sound while the other note was a |
| back from ancient times and historians have | | | | little darker. These paired instruments were called |
| found artifacts to be early flutes which are about | | | | Bullroarers, skin drums and Shell trumpets. And |
| 37000 years old. Various musical instruments | | | | the ancient people associated genders with the |
| developed in different parts of the world and with | | | | paired instruments and the bigger and energetic |
| the rapid growth of civilization these instruments | | | | the instrument was called the father while the |
| spread from their place of origin to far and wide. | | | | smaller and dull sound producing instruments was |
| In the Middle age period various instruments that | | | | called the mother. |
| had originated from one country were found in | | | | The early Xylophone originated in South East Asia |
| anointer region of the world. And this way the | | | | and there were many other forms of musical |
| different cultures started sharing their music with | | | | instruments that evolved at different times in |
| each other. | | | | different cultures and civilizations spread all over |
| Archaeologists found a bone carving that | | | | the world. The popular instruments that are |
| resembled and worked like a flute and it was | | | | played in this era have somehow evolved from |
| proved that diatonic notes could easily be played | | | | the different instruments whose development |
| on it. So we can say for sure that the flutes | | | | focused on effectiveness and skill. |
| were the oldest known musical instruments. | | | | Some cultures preferred playing with stringed |
| There are many different types of instruments | | | | instruments and this is the reason innumerable |
| that were discovered later on like harps, lyres and | | | | varieties of differ types of harps and lyres are |
| cymbals. Plus a cylindrical pipe with three side | | | | depicted in many of the paintings found on the |
| holes was also discovered and resembled the | | | | cave walls and these became the forerunner of |
| bagpipes. | | | | the modern version of stringed instruments like |
| In olden days many cultures also assigned ritual | | | | the violin. The Greek and Roman musical |
| functions to their musical instruments and because | | | | instruments were simple and nearly all of them |
| of this more and more precision instruments were | | | | were originally from other cultures. |
| developed and ribbon reed, flutes and trumpets | | | | So we can truly say that music and musical |
| evolved. The drums were used in religious rituals | | | | instruments have always been part of our cultural |
| in the African and Russian cultures in the early | | | | heritage. |
| days. | | | | |