# Musical Instruments [1876]

Author: Engel, Carl, 1818-1882

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54537

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Musical+Instruments+%5B1876%5D+Engel&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Music, in however primitive a stage of development it may be with some nations, is universally appreciated as one of the Fine Arts. The origin of vocal music may have been coeval with that of language; and the construction of musical instruments evidently dates with the earliest inventions which suggested themselves to human ingenuity. There exist even at the present day some savage tribes in Australia and South America who, although they have no more than the five first numerals in their language and are thereby unable to count the fingers of both hands together, nevertheless possess musical instruments of their own contrivance, with which they accompany their songs and dances.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-instruments-1876-54537/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-instruments-1876-54537/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-instruments-1876-54537/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-instruments-1876-54537/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-instruments-1876-54537/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-instruments-1876-54537/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-instruments-1876-54537/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-instruments-1876-54537/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-instruments-1876-54537/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-instruments-1876-54537/chapters/9/index.md)