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Organ 3rd century BC ancient Greece https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. woodwind
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cello sixteenth century Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. string
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Harp 15,000 BC Ancient Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. strings
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trumpet 1500 BC China, South America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. brass
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guitar fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. strings
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gittern 13th century Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. string
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fiddle 10th-century Cremona, Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. string
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dulcimer about 900 A.D southwest Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. strings
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sackbut 15th century probably in Burgundy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. brass
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sackbut 15th century Burgundy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. brass
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crumhorn 1489 Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. woodwind
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violin early 16th century northern Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. string
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Triangle 16th century ancient Egyptian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. precussion
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piano around the year 1700 Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. string
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mental guiro as early as 1788 Puerto Rico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. precussion
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ocular mid 19th century South America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. electronic
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Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation".
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Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded
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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the help of a local patron, Antonio Barezzi.
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accordion 1822 Berlin, Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. woodwind
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piccolo 1832 Western Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. woodwind
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Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna.
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Saxophone early 1840s Belgium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. brass
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Ukulele Physical Map of movement 1879 Hawaii/ Portugal https://stagemusiccenter.com/music-school-blog-winchester-acton-ma/2019/9/20/ukulele-history-fun-facts-and-benefits-of-learning Strings/ Plucked