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The Mystical Pentatonic Scale and Ancient Instruments - C C - May 5, 2016
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/mystical-pentatonic-scale-and-ancient-instruments-part-i-bone-flutes-020826?nopaging=1
EXCERPT: One of the ancient technologies that is often overlooked is the creation of musical instruments. The purpose, development and in some cases the techniques used to develop music remains a mystery. Pythagoras was one of the first people to do a scientific study on the tones that seem to occur naturally in the world. And yet the use of the five tones of the pentatonic scale predates Pythagoras by millennia. High in the mountains around southwestern Germany, in an area known as Swabia, bone flutes were found in 2008 that have scientists rethinking when human creativity first showed up in history. Many of the bone flutes found around the world are made from the bones of birds. It may be that the hollow bones of birds is much easier to turn into a flute, or it could be that early cultures believed that the bones of the bird would impart some of the bird’s song into the flute, or perhaps a bit of both of these ideas is true. But something that is remarkable, is many of the bone flutes found throughout the world are tuned to the pentatonic scale. Many claim that these flutes are between 40,000 and 60,000 years old...