Musical instruments by year they were invented
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About this puzzle
Musical instruments carry a look that has almost nothing to do with their age. Wood, brass and gut strings read as ancient, so a Baroque keyboard invention gets filed as medieval and a 19th-century horn gets treated as timeless. Ranking by invention year forces you to separate how old an instrument sounds from when someone actually built the first one.
Ranked earliest invention to latest invention · year it was invented
What's in this puzzle
Listed alphabetically, without their values - the answer order stays hidden until you play.
- Electric guitar
- Piano
- Saxophone
- Synthesizer
- Violin
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