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Interesting fact of the day: The first archaeological evidence of instruments, a flute, was **not** made by humans, in fact, it was made by a neanderthal and is 60,000 years old.
@trinsec That doesnt mean we are neanderthals... it only implies we have common ancestry.
@freemo Tell that the parent organization of our school. They took over our school that's existed for over 2 centuries now. Now that org, which is probably at most a few decades old, makes the claim that they've existed 'for 200 years!'... 🤨
So I'll just follow suit. Us humans invented the damn flute, and that's that! *Stomps on floor*
It all comes downt o definition... the first musical instrument would be ones voice, after that perhaps a woodpecker or the beating of the tail of a beaver or similar.. I'm sure some human hit two sticks together like a drum at one point too...
I think if you really want to define a musical instrument for this context in a meaningful way it would have to be some object that had to be formed to make sounds it couldnt naturally do.
@freemo Supplemental semi-interesting fact of the day: the Neandertal is a valley of the river Düssel near Düsseldorf. The "h" got dropped in the German spelling reform of 1901.
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My mother played flute in a couple of orchestras, so I have no choice but to boost this post. Her dna test showed a couple percent Neandertal origin, too!
@AndyLowry Her great grandmommy/daddy invented the flute :)
@freemo Considering that the majority of humanity have like 2% Neanderthal-DNA (I think I've read that somewhere), we can make the claim anyway! Ha!