Saxophone

harp

3500 BCE

The earliest harps and lyres were found in Sumer, 3500 BCE

Cymbals

3000 BCE

around 3,000 B.C. Judging from the many stories on the use of the instrument in those early days.

Flute

900 BCE

Marching Instruments

1700

banjo

1840

in the 1840s, and became very popular in music halls. The instrument grew in popularity during the 1840s after Sweeney began his traveling minstrel show.

conga

1886

Around the time Cuban slavery ended in 1886

sitar

1900

and arrived at its present form in 19th-century India.

Drums

5500