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[wjfox]

Earliest music instruments found

Researchers have identified what they say are the oldest-known musical instruments in the world.

The flutes, made from bird bone and mammoth ivory, come from a cave in southern Germany which contains early evidence for the occupation of Europe by modern humans - Homo sapiens.

Scientists used carbon dating to show that the flutes were between 42,000 and 43,000 years old.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-18196349

[Italian Ufo]

Wow thats intresting and a good image.

[Logically Irrational]

It really is a shame that we don't have a good idea of music before the last couple of centuries or so. That's the one great mystery of cultural history: what did ancient - medieval music really sound like. We still don't know how any of the classical plays were supposed to be sung, or how bards performed melodies. Just think of all the amazingly talented people we may be unaware of because they lacked a good way to preserve their art form.

[Italian Ufo]

It really is a shame that we don't have a good idea of music before the last couple of centuries or so. That's the one great mystery of cultural history: what did ancient - medieval music really sound like. We still don't know how any of the classical plays were supposed to be sung, or how bards performed melodies. Just think of all the amazingly talented people we may be unaware of because they lacked a good way to preserve their art form.

Actully we have a fair knowdlege how medieval music sounded like especially relgious chants. But i am sure if would have go back in time we would know much more about it