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Unfortunately, there are no vestigial remains of African musical instruments other than those illustrations in Egypt portrayed
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The genesis of modern western instruments can be traced back to the development of African instruments. The statement the genesis of modern western instruments can be traced back to the development of African instruments basically indicates that the origins of the music we use today come from the developments from Africa. To look at this statement briefly one may say that it is a very untrue statement. Even when studied briefly one will still say that it is very untrue. But when studied in detail, the continent of Africa was responsible for the development of the simple categories of the aerophones, membranophones and the chordophones. Music is such an important part of African life and always has been therefore the people used whatever they could to make their music. Egypt, a country on the continent of Africa then developed these instruments further as it had the resources and was...
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