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The Origin of Musical Instruments
Although there are a variety of theories as to the origin of musical instruments, two of the earliest known musical instruments were the Lyre and the “Pipe”.
The Lyre was a stringed instrument with normally ten strings and related to the Harp with twelve strings, except the Lyre was played by picking a single string at a time with a plectrum, such as a small thin piece of metal, plastic, bone, or similar material and the Harp with its twelve strings were normally played by either strumming or picking the strings with the fingers.
An early mention of the Lyre was in Genesis 4:20-21 of the Bible, (circa 1450 B.C.) referring to Jubal as the “father of the lyre and pipe”. It is suggested the word, Jubal is the root word of “jubilation” referring to a musical celebration.
In today’s world, a musical instrument similar to the Lyre is the guitar with the sound produced by the string vibration. Since each string of the guitar displaces a small amount of air, the volume of sound is increased by using a soundboard or resonant cavity of the hollow body of the guitar, from which comes the name, Acoustic Guitar.
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The soundboard with its larger surface area displaces a greater volume of air and produces a more robust sound than the strings alone. The Acoustic guitar may be played with a pick such as the Lyre plectrum or with the fingers as with the Harp. Then adding today’s electronic technology, to the guitar creates totally new and different musical sounds and enhanced sound projection.
In the same Bible scripture (Genesis 4:20-21, a second musical instrument is also described as “the pipe”, which relates in modern times to a woodwind instrument, such as the flute. However as with the Lyre, there has been a significant evolution from perhaps originally a grouping of several pipes of varying lengths tied together and blown over the end to produce a varying sound pitch modified to a single hollow tube with holes opened and closed with the fingers, more similar to the C flute of today, with its holes at varying lengths and sizes in the instrument opened or closed by the fingers to produce a different musical pitch.
Thus, with human ingenuity at work, modifications to these two original musical instruments have produced an entire family of string and woodwind instruments such as the Bb clarinet to the enjoyment of both the musician and the listener.
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Footage captured in August 2008, at the Mendocino Woodlands, Middle Eastern Music and Dance Camp. Omar Faruk Tekbilek, originally from Turkey, teaches and demonstrates the ney and zurna. Also incuded are short performance clips of Omar with the instruments and band members.
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