The oldest wind musical instrument is 18 thousand years old. This is a snail shell

Using computer modeling, scientists learned that the holes in the huge shell were made by

using tools and arranged in such a way that sounds could be extracted with their help.

Carbon dating of material from the cave,located in the same layer as the shell, suggests that the instrument is about 18 thousand years old. If true, the shell is the oldest wind instrument of this type ever found.

In order to check, you can extract frominstruments notes, the scientists invited professional musicians to play the shell. The hole into which the player blew was irregular and contained a layer of organic material, which may indicate that it had a separate mouthpiece. This is not uncommon for shells used as musical instruments.

 In the future, scientists are going to create a copy of the shell to try to reproduce other notes.

In addition, the shell of the instrument indicates that the inhabitants of the region have already been in contact with the inhabitants of the Atlantic coast, about 200 kilometers to the west.

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