Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1917 — Evolution of Musical Instruments. [ARTICLE]

Evolution of Musical Instruments.

In musical history we will find that the evolution of musical instruments began with the beating on drums and tom-toms, then men began to try and Imitate nature, with the means that nature had provided, the horns of beasts and their duplicates in metal, and on the reed instruments (flutes and pipes); last we reach the culmination of development, in the truest and greatest of musical instruments, the vibration of attuned strings. So, in musical listening, we will pass through nearly th* same development. First attracted by rhythm, then by melody, we learn to appreciate the true beauties of harmony, and to know that each one of the three elements is of equal importance in the building of a musical composition.— Exchange.