Do you play a musical instrument? I used to play piano as a child.
I played piano for maybe a year when I was little. I hated practicing! It wasn't for me. 
Yeah, same here. I wanted to play sports instead. Musical instruments dates back to the beginning of human culture.
I imagine archaeologists have found all kinds of evidence of musical instruments, huh?
That's correct. Early instruments may have been used for rituals such as religious ceremonies.
I bet the first instruments were probably drums Banging on something to make a sound is about as simple as it gets.
in step with changing applications.
The date and origin of the first device considered a musical instrument is disputed. The oldest object that some scholars refer to as a musical instrument, a simple flute, dates back as far as 67,000 years. Some consensus dates early flutes to about 37,000 years ago. However, most historians believe that determining a specific time of musical instrument invention is impossible due to the subjectivity of the definition and the relative instability of materials used to make them. Many early musical instruments were made from animal
hated the piano at first. I'd love to say I was a natural but I wasn't. I hated playing it and I hated my music teacher. My father, who was a canny man, told me, 'We have to scrimp and save to pay for these lessons, you might as well give them up.’
“It wasn't long before I gravitated back to the piano, trying to play the songs that I was listening to on the radio. I always wondered what my left hand