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2000 BCE
Organ
Organ 3rd century BC ancient Greece https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. woodwind -
1500 BCE
cello
cello sixteenth century Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. string -
1400 BCE
Harp
Harp 15,000 BC Ancient Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. strings -
1400 BCE
trumpet
trumpet 1500 BC China, South America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. brass -
1300 BCE
guitar
guitar fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. strings -
1200 BCE
gittern
gittern 13th century Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. string -
900
fiddle
fiddle 10th-century Cremona, Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. string -
Apr 26, 900
dulcimer
dulcimer about 900 A.D southwest Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. strings -
Jul 28, 1400
sackbut
sackbut 15th century probably in Burgundy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. brass -
Sep 5, 1400
sackbut
sackbut 15th century Burgundy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. brass -
Jun 8, 1489
crumhorn
crumhorn 1489 Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. woodwind -
Feb 12, 1500
violin
violin early 16th century northern Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. string -
Feb 22, 1500
Triangle
Triangle 16th century ancient Egyptian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. precussion -
piano
piano around the year 1700 Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. string -
mental guiro
mental guiro as early as 1788 Puerto Rico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. precussion -
ocular
ocular mid 19th century South America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. electronic -
Period: to
Frédéric François
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation". -
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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded -
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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the help of a local patron, Antonio Barezzi. -
accordion
accordion 1822 Berlin, Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. woodwind -
piccolo
piccolo 1832 Western Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. woodwind -
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. -
Saxophone
Saxophone early 1840s Belgium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle#:~:text=The%20medieval%20fiddle%20emerged%20in,of%20most%20European%20bowed%20instruments. brass -
Ukulele
Ukulele Physical Map of movement 1879 Hawaii/ Portugal https://stagemusiccenter.com/music-school-blog-winchester-acton-ma/2019/9/20/ukulele-history-fun-facts-and-benefits-of-learning Strings/ Plucked