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.
ANSWER:
D is the answer that you needed!
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.
