The Oldest Known Musical Instrument It was recently discovered that an ancient Neanderthal campsite housed an ancient bone (43,000-82,000 years old) which appears to be a flute. The bone, which is a femur of a cave bear, has four holes: Two complete holes and two partial holes, one at each end of the bone. One of the significant things about the flute is that the instrument’s four notes match four notes of the Do, …showed first 75 words of 252 total…

…showed last 75 words of 252 total…on the ancient bone match with those on a modern scale. It was finally concluded that the bone was in fact manmade for the purpose of playing music. It seems very amazing that such an ancient devise would coincide so well with our modern instruments. The existence of the instrument also clearly shows that even up to 80,000 years ago, humans were fascinated with music and also that at least some of them enjoyed playing music.