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15,000 BCE
Harp
Ancient Egypt
Stringed instrument in which the resonator or belly is perpendicular or nearly so to the plane of strings
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5500 BCE
Drum
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2000 BCE
Cymbals
Asia
a percussion instrument consisting of a circular flat or concave
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1500 BCE
Trumpet
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1411
Trombone
Belgium
Like a trumpet, it has a cylindrical bore flare to a bell
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1501
Cello
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Oboe
France
Long slender wooden tube widening out into a bell shape at the end
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Bassoon
France
A woodwind instrument that produces sound in a low range using a double ree
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Mandolin
Germany
Musical instrument with a wooden body string and a long neck
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Xylophone
Southeast Asia
percussion instrument made of wooden bars with resonators underneath
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French horn
Germany
12 feet of narrow tubing wound into a circle
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Accordion
Berlin
Portable wind instrument having a large bellow for forcing air through small
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Harmonica
China
Reed instrument development in Europe in the early 19th century
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Recorder
Germany
wooden or plastic musical instrument in the shape of a pipe
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Bass guitar
Washington
A musical instrument that produces tones in the low-pitched range C2-C4
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