The oldest playable instruments are red-crowned crane-bone flutes from Chinaโs Neolithic Age and in Tibet thigh-bone trumpets (rkangling) and skull drums (damaru) were used.
![A Central African lyre made from a human skull, antelope horns, skin, gut, and hair. 19th century CE, It is currently stored at The Metropolitan museum[1080x1069]. : r/ArtefactPorn](https://preview.redd.it/a-central-african-lyre-made-from-a-human-skull-antelope-v0-3qeuox9qnb8b1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=02850869cb99f1d135fc69e8a0d3213692e401bb)
Skull lyres, thought to be from Ethiopia, are rare, scarcely documented and found only in museums. While some have suggested a symbolic or clandestine ritual use for these lyres, there is no known tradition. Most likely it is a sensational item made for the nineteenth-century European market.
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