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How old is it appropriate to learn musical instruments?

It is more appropriate to learn musical instruments at the age of three to seven.

The best age for children to learn musical instruments is three to seven years old. One to five years old is the most important period of human intelligence development, but under three years old, autonomy is still relatively poor. Just listen to some cheerful children's songs and learn to sing. After the age of three, you can start to learn a simple and portable electronic organ, exercise the flexibility of children's fingers and wrists, listen to some cheerful children's songs, develop the left and right hemispheres, and promote the development of brain cells.

After the age of five, children's bones and joints, ligaments and muscles are relatively stable, so they can practice some powerful pianos, such as accordion, piano and drum set. Musical instruments generally refer to objects that can play timbre and melody in various ways. Generally divided into national musical instruments and western musical instruments.

The music industry believes that the vocal instruments used for music are musical instruments; Musical instrument scholars usually regard many non-musical sounding instruments as musical instruments, such as golden drums in ancient wars, percussion instruments in religious prayer chanting, etiquette signals in weddings and funerals, and signalmen recruited by vendors.

Classification of folk music

National musical instruments are divided into four categories: body musical instruments, membrane musical instruments, air musical instruments and stringed instruments. China national musical instruments have a long history. Only unearthed cultural relics can prove that there were various musical instruments as early as the pre-Qin period. For example, the bone flute unearthed in Hemudu, Zhejiang Province, and the Jia Hu bone flute in Wuyang County, Henan Province.

Muqiang Mangpi Drum unearthed from Yi and Anyang Yin Ruins in banpo village, Yangshao Cultural Site; Chimes, bells, hanging drums, drums, flutes, sheng, left and harp unearthed from the tomb of Zeng Houyi in Sui County, Hubei Province.