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Music in ancient Egypt: musical instruments
Musical instruments and parts of instruments in the Petrie Museum. Most of them date to the New Kingdom or the Roman Period; some, such as UC 35805, are modern items acquired as parallels.
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cymbals
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bell
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parts of harps
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pipes and fragment of pipes
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The first occurrence of important musical instruments in Ancient Egypt. The most important instruments are of course the human voice and the hands.
| Old Kingdom | Middle Kingdom | New Kingdom | Late Period | Ptolemaic Period | Roman Period | |
| Membranophones | ||||||
| drums (?) | ||||||
| clarinet | ||||||
| double pipes | ||||||
| sistrum | ||||||
| hand drum | ||||||
| clappers | ||||||
| tambourine | ||||||
| Aerophones | ||||||
| flute | ||||||
| lute | ||||||
| trumpet | ||||||
| oboe | ||||||
| Cordophones | ||||||
| harp | ||||||
| lyre (singular) | ||||||
| lyre | ||||||
| bells | ||||||
| cymbals |
the table follows mostly the description in: