Posts Tagged instrument

Flute

27 May 2010

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…)

Angklung

2 January 2010

This musical instrument of two bamboo tubes to a bamboo frame. Bamboo shoots are cut to create a sound field when struck. The player with the bottom of the device with one hand and shake the hand of the instrument as soon along with the other hand, produces a single note repeatedly. Each artist will play a series angklung only one sound, and together they create a melody. (more…)