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Email Newsletter Name: China Trivia: How Old And What Type Is The Oldest Playable Musical Instrument?
Date Published: November 21, 2006


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QUESTION:
Chinese music remains as one of the most misunderstood aspects of China by the world even today. The use of the five-note pentatonic scale means that for many foreign ears, Chinese music sounds discordant and harsh.

Music in China has developed over many thousands of years and as anyone who has been to China knows, the Chinese love to make music; whether it be in the form of a busker in the subway playing on an erhu (a stringed instrument) to a cyclist singing an old opera at the top of his lungs as he peddles to work.

The world's oldest playable musical instrument was found in China. How old is it and what type of instrument is it?

A. 5,000-year old piano;
B. 9,000-year old electric guitar;
C. 250-year old trombone;
D. 9,000-year old flute.

ANSWERS:
D is the answer that you need! Scientists discovered a flute carved from a bird's wing bone that has been dated as being made some 9,000 years ago. The flute was discovered with other flutes at an ancient burial site in China.

   
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