The oldest playable instruments discovered in China are nine thousand years old. It is a Flute with seven holes.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/28/science/after-9000-years-oldest-playable-flute-is-heard-again.html
Drum (A+)
There are hundreds of different musical instruments around the world. Flutes and drums are some of the oldest. Stringed instruments such as the guitar, lute, dulcimer, and piano are found in many cultures as well.
yes All brass instruments come from the same basic origins. The brass instrument that has changed the least over the last 200 years is the trombone.
All reed instruments are part of the woodwind instrument family, but there are some other woodwinds also that are not reed instruments - mainly the flute.
flute
Drum (A+)
There are hundreds of different musical instruments around the world. Flutes and drums are some of the oldest. Stringed instruments such as the guitar, lute, dulcimer, and piano are found in many cultures as well.
All can be considered as a percussion instrument but the Chordophone is not really a "Main" category in percussion. The two major category .
All percussion instruments are played by either hitting them with something or crashing them together. Since the Vibraphone is hit with a mallet to produce sound, then it would be considered a percussion instrument.
yes All brass instruments come from the same basic origins. The brass instrument that has changed the least over the last 200 years is the trombone.
All reed instruments are part of the woodwind instrument family, but there are some other woodwinds also that are not reed instruments - mainly the flute.
Trumpet
All instruments produce a pitch.
All drums are percussion instruments.
flute
Corgan often played all instruments excluding drums
The piccolo is the highest pitched instrument in the woodwind family