Generally speaking, the traditional musical instruments emerged from very simple objects of life that were used to produce sounds and developed into rather complicated mechanisms. One should not forget that original music instruments were used not primarily for entertainment, but as signal instruments by gatherers, hunters and shepards. Probably that the first instruments used to make sounds were the wind instruments and the percussion ones. One of the simplest possible, from the point of view of construction, as well as the use, has been the horn. Of course that the area known today as Belarus wasn't an exception, and the horn (named roh in belarusian) is one of the traditional Belarusian musical instruments.
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