Classification of Musical Instruments

It is reasonable to conjecture that musical instruments representing the four categories identified in the Nāṭyaśāstra had already been in use among the people of the fertile Indus river valley for over two millennia. The Indus Valley civilization flourished c. 2500–2000 b.c. The two largest cities were Harappa and Mohenjo Daro , in the present-day Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh, respectively. Excavated artifacts indicate the use of spherical clay pellet rattles...