Orchestra

Akkadian

  • Harps (4 to 11 strings)
  • Lutes
  • lyres
  • drums (Percussive instruments only played on specific ritualistic circumstances. Played with hands, not sticks)
  • Animal Horns
  • Silver Pipes with finder holes: double reed: oboe


MAYAN

Mayan

Trumpets

  • Clay and relatively short
  • Wooden and much longer

Flutes

  • Many types
  • Goitre side chamber (sounds more closely to an oboe)
  • Tube flute (produced 3 note chords)
  • Ocarina (Vessel Flute)
    • Possibly used during small cult rituals and burial ceremonies

Percussion

  • Mainly Drums and rattles
  • Kayum (upright singe-headed cylindrical or kettle shaped drum) played bare handed