You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

THE WILD WORLD OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
 
 
�       The har­mon­i­ca is the world’s top-sell­ing instru­ment, with about three
mil­lion of the free-reed wind instru­ments sold glob­al­ly each year. Its
pop­u­lar­i­ty is based on the fact that it is small, light­weight and
afford­able.  
 
�       The kazoo is often a person’s first musi­cal instru­ment. An Amer­i­can
orig­i­nal, the kazoo is like­ly derived from the eunuch flute, which is
held hor­i­zon­tal­ly while the kazoo is played ver­ti­cal­ly.
 
�       Spoons have been used as musi­cal instru­ments for cen­turies. For­mer
UB40 singer Dun­can Camp­bell was once a reg­is­tered spoon play­er
with the Unit­ed Kingdom’s Musician’s Union.
 
�            A luthi­er is a per­son who makes a string instru­ment that has a neck
and a sound box, which includes mem­bers of the vio­lin fam­i­ly,
gui­tars, ban­jos, and even the 42-string Pikas­so gui­tar with four necks,
two sound holes and 42 strings.
 
�            Ben­jamin Franklin invent­ed a lot of devices, but music lovers
prob­a­bly think his coolest inven­tion was the glass har­mon­i­ca (aka
armon­i­ca). Invent­ed by Franklin in 1761, the glass har­mon­i­ca is a
series of glass bowls arranged hor­i­zon­tal­ly in grad­u­at­ed size (larg­er to
small­er) that pro­duce music through fric­tion.
 
�       Equine jaw bones make pop­u­lar per­cus­sion instru­ments in some parts
of Latin Amer­i­ca. Known as the Qui­ja­da or Char­ras­ca in Span­ish, or
sim­ply the jaw­bone in Eng­lish, the instru­ment was orig­i­nal­ly brought
to the Amer­i­c­as by African slaves.
 
�            With an esti­mat­ed price of more than $20 mil­lion, the Mes­si­ah
Stradi­var­ius is the most expen­sive vio­lin to ever exist. It was craft­ed
in 1716 by Anto­nio Stradi­vari, a world-renowned mak­er of the best
vio­lins in the world. Stradi­vari cre­at­ed the Mes­si­ah dur­ing his gold­en
peri­od, and it stayed in his shop until he died in 1737. Vio­lin­ists do
not play with it as much, hence its rel­a­tive­ly new con­di­tion.
 
�            The Earth Harp is the longest stringed instru­ment in the world.
Invent­ed by William Close, the Earth Harp’s strings extend up to
291.71 m (957 ft 0.6 in) and is installed in dif­fer­ent loca­tions that
have opti­mal acoustics.
 
�       The “world’s small­est vio­lin” is a real thing! Venezue­lan luthi­er and
vio­lin­ist Bal­tazar Monaca per­formed Vivaldi’s “Vio­lin Con­cer­to in A
Minor” on a three-inch vio­lin in 2014.
 
�       The Guin­ness World Book of Records con­sid­ers the Great Sta­lacpipe
Organ in the Luray Cav­erns of Vir­ginia to be the largest musi­cal
instru­ment in the world. The organ was first con­struct­ed by Leland W.
Sprin­kle in 1956 and cov­ers 3.5 acres of the cav­erns.
 
�            The harp­si­cord and piano may look like sim­i­lar instru­ments, but
they’re actu­al­ly in dif­fer­ent instru­ment class­es. The harp­si­cord
func­tions by the strings being plucked, like oth­er stringed
instru­ments, while the piano works by ham­mers hit­ting the strings,
mak­ing it a per­cus­sion instru­ment.
 
�            If you ever watch the 1989 post-apoc­a­lyp­tic B‑film, Cyborg, you’ll
notice many of the char­ac­ters are named after musi­cal instru­ments.
There’s the hero, Gib­son Rick­en­backer (Gib­son gui­tars), the
antag­o­nist, Fend­er Tremo­lo (Fend­er gui­tars), and the cyborg, Pearl
Prophet (Pearl drums).
 
�       The pop­u­lar instru­ment known as the Jew’s harp is nei­ther a harp nor
asso­ci­at­ed with Jew­ish peo­ple. It orig­i­nat­ed in 3rd cen­tu­ry BCE Chi­na
and although it’s plucked like a harp, it’s played in the mouth.
 
�       The Aztecs of Mex­i­co loved music and human sac­ri­fice, mix­ing the
two in elab­o­rate rit­u­als. Death whis­tles were musi­cal instru­ments
carved out of dif­fer­ent sub­stances into the shape of human skulls that
were used by priests dur­ing human sac­ri­fice rit­u­als.
 
�       Before the record player/phonograph became afford­able and pop­u­lar
in the 1930s, any­one who was any­one had a play­er piano, or pianola,
in their home. Play­er pianos played pro­grammed music on paper or
metal­lic rolls. 
 
�       Clap­per­less cow­bells are com­mon in mod­ern Latin music and can be
heard in pop music from around the world by musi­cians who “want
more cow­bells.” They are played by sim­ply beat­ing them with a
drum­stick.
 
�       The theremin is a musi­cal instru­ment that is played with­out phys­i­cal
con­tact. Invent­ed by Russ­ian Leon Theremin in 1919, the theremin is
played by mov­ing one’s hands around and between two met­al
anten­nas.
 
�       The sistrum was a hand-held per­cus­sion instru­ment that was pop­u­lar
in ancient Egypt­ian reli­gious rit­u­als. Music was made by sim­ply
shak­ing the sistrum, which rat­tled the met­al rings that hung on it.
 
�       A typ­i­cal piano has over 120,000 parts, of which more than 10,000 of
these move. Pianos also have more than 230 strings and 88 keys,
mak­ing them one of the most com­plex instru­ments in the mod­ern
world.
 
�            Late Nirvana’s front man, Kurt Cobain’s acoustic-elec­tric 1959
mar­tin D‑18E sold for $6.1 mil­lion at an auc­tion in 2020, mak­ing it
the most expen­sive gui­tar ever sold.
 
�            Amer­i­can engi­neer Robert Moog and his 1964 inven­tion, the Moog
syn­the­siz­er, changed pop­u­lar music for­ev­er. The Moog syn­the­siz­er
was ground­break­ing because when it became avail­able to the pub­lic
in 1965, it became the world’s first com­mer­cial syn­the­siz­er. It was
used in the Beatle’s album “Abbey Road” in 1969.
 
�       If you’re a fan of the film Star Wars: A New Hope, then you cer­tain­ly
remem­ber the scene at the Mos Eis­ley can­ti­na. The band actu­al­ly had
a name, Figrin D’An and the Modal Nodes, and the clar­inet-look­ing
instru­ment some of them were play­ing is known as a “kloo horn.”
 
�            One of the old­est stringed instru­ments ever dis­cov­ered is the “bull
harp” or “bull-head­ed lyre.” It was dis­cov­ered in the ruins of the
ancient Mesopotami­an city of Ur (mod­ern Iraq) and is believed to
have been made some­time between 2,550 and 2,450 BCE.
 
�       Buck­et drumming—simply play­ing the drums on one or more plas­tic
buckets—has become pop­u­lar in urban land­scapes around the world.
New York­er Lar­ry Wright is often cred­it­ed with start­ing the mod­ern
music trend in 1990 when he was around 13.
 
�       You’ve prob­a­bly heard a musi­cal saw but didn’t know it. A musi­cal
saw is sim­ply a flex­i­ble hand­saw that is held between the knees and