The First Musical Instruments

It has long been a theory that the first musicians were actually hunters who experimented with ordinary hunting tools such as, the bow and arrow, and the blowgun to create the earliest sounds of music.

For instance, the basic principle of the panpipe (or pan flute) was likely derived from primitive blowguns used to peruse small game across tropical rain forests.
Hunters soon realized that different tones (or notes) could be produced as pipes of varying lengths and thickness were blown into.
Panpipes are the ancient ancestor of both the harmonica and the pipe organ, and the direct inspiration behind the world’s first keyboard instrument, developed in the year 250 BC.