The most unusual musical instruments

Music is part of every known human culture. “Modern music is heard in a bewildering profusion of styles, many of them contemporary, others engendered in past eras,” Encyclopedia Britannica explains. The first known musical instruments date back at least 40,000 years. Over the course of millennia, creative people have made music with just about everything they could get their hands on, from hollowed-out tree branches to fresh produce, household utensils and even stalactites. Let’s discover some of the most weird and wonderful instruments in world music.