- Four different types: percussion, stringed, keyboard, wind, and electronic.
- Paleolithic Period(old stone age): made pipes and whistle instruments.
- Neolithic Period(new stone age): clay drums and shell instruments.
- There is no proof of any specific instrument, being the first source of music.
- Many ancient cities created the instruments we play today
- four factors have changed basic instruments and made many new instruments with unique sounds. They are, materials, symbolic preoccupations, and patterns of trade and migration
- Western art uses folk instruments. (banjo, violin, mandolin, guitar, ukulele)
- Conventional Western thinking claimed that the earliest instruments were slightly modified natural objects such as bones, shells, or gourds. They would play a pitch then change into another complex form to make another instrument.
- Early humans were sensitive to tones and pitches of sound, just like a dog or cat. This helped them to construct different instruments.
What made early humans want to change the pitch of their instruments and how did the know how to?
