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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