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This is a rather debatable question but it is most likely that the first instrument was the human voice. After that, musical sounds that could be produced with the human body such as clapping and snapping were probably used. The first instrument outside of the human body was almost doubtlessly percussive. Anything that early man could tap on that would produce a percussive sound was likely implemented for music; a hollow log, a clay pot, a bone, a rock against another rock, a dried out seedpod, almost any object.

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