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Musical instruments have been created since the old times by early humans. Any musical instrument can be made from anything, ranging from wood, iron, brass, copper, stone and even the bones of a dead animal.

Like a flute or some kind of flute found in an old cave in Germany.

The flute is made from bird bones weaverbird and estimated by the archaeologist is the world’s oldest musical instrument.

Bone flute was about 40,000 years old and was discovered by the archaeologist from the University of Tuebingen in the Hohle Fels, a stone cave in southern Germany. (more…)

Traditional musical instrument zither is an instrument of classical music that always colors some of the arts in this Sunda land. Make a Kecapi is not easy. Although glance looks like a harp, a simple instrument, but it makes it not easy. For the raw material is only made of wood Boxwood first soaked for three months. While the strings, if you want to produce good tone, the atmosphere should be of wire (alloy of gold and copper), such as the lute that was made long ago. Since the atmosphere is currently expensive, more strings Santol now using steel wire.
Tones in the harp sunda have five (pentatonic) scales ie Da, Mi, Na, Ti, La,.
Couple this Sundanese zither musical instrument is usually a flute made of bamboo sunda. The music that flows will feel dazzling in our ears if played both. (more…)