History of Music - Earliest Known Instruments
During the next few pages, I will briefly cover a small portion of music history. Starting back all the way from 60,000 BCE to 3000 BCE, to ancient civilizations, and then to modern day music. My goal is to at least teach you one fact about music from each area listed for this web programming project.
I will be giving you brief examples from early styles of music to modern day rock to hopefully show you how far we have come in music technology. I have also included examples of each form of rock music using my own instruments.
Let's actually get this started a little bit early. In the prehistoric era and ancient times, the first musical instrument was actually the hyoid bone or better described as voice. Later, music played on an actual physically held instrument started with a bone flute. The oldest known bone flutes were invented in Slovenia between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find an example of someone playing a bone flute from 60,000 BC, but I was able to find a bone flute made from deer antlers as the video above shows.
Below is a picture of the bone flute I was referencing:
