Orchestra
Akkadian
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
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