The piano in its present state of perfection and the story of their development is an interesting one to the musician and the antiquarian alike. These stringed instruments have always held a prominent place in the music of every country. Throughout the ages the stretched string has continued to be one of the major means of generating a musical sound, set in vibration by a bow of hair or gut string plucked by the fingers or hard plectrum, or in some instances, struck with a hammer. The very first stringed instrument was possibly the hunting bow – such bows appear in stone-age cave drawings dating back many thousands of years, and all of our music-making machines today are decedents of those that were used in the remotest ages of antiquity. Men have been picking stringed instruments since the beginning of recorded history, the first instruments used by man which might be called melodious were no doubt stringed instruments.
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