Saxophone

By arithemonkey77
  • 3500 BCE

    harp

    harp
    The earliest harps and lyres were found in Sumer, 3500 BCE
  • 3000 BCE

    Cymbals

    Cymbals
    around 3,000 B.C. Judging from the many stories on the use of the instrument in those early days.
  • 900 BCE

    Flute

    Flute

  • Marching Instruments

    Marching Instruments

  • banjo

    banjo
    in the 1840s, and became very popular in music halls. The instrument grew in popularity during the 1840s after Sweeney began his traveling minstrel show.

  • conga

    conga
    Around the time Cuban slavery ended in 1886

  • sitar

    sitar
    and arrived at its present form in 19th-century India.

  • Drums

    Drums