Ancient Drums and Percussion Instruments – The Hunt for the First Musical Instrument Ever Constructed



If you’re a music lover, and you’re interested in musical instruments and history, you’ve probably already asked yourself, where did it all start? Most of us imagine old flutes and drums, as well as ancient guitars being played in a cave or somewhere in a forest as part of a tribal ritual. That is actually not far from the truth.


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While some of the earliest musical instruments in existence were flutes, which date back more than 60,000 years, percussion instruments actually predated these. Even though the earliest drum ever built was discovered to have appeared about 30,000 years ago – an elephant skin drum discovered in Antarctica – this is only the first drum that resembled the instruments we have today. Percussion instruments existed as far back as hundreds of thousands of years ago in some form, and that’s just what archaeologists have uncovered thus far.

The oldest known percussion instrument was found in digs that preserved stone tools used more than 160,000 years ago. The strange stone tablets and shapes discovered by archaeologists seemed to have been used to produce music as part of various rituals, either by being hit with an implement, rubbed or scraped.

While the first musical instrument ever discovered is likely the human voice, these types of stone percussion instruments are believed to have been the first artificial musical instruments ever built by early humans as they evolved into creative, thinking beings.

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