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A detail from Abraham van der Schoor's "The Concert", circa 1650.

Photo: akg-images / Cameraphoto

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A 1492 woodcut of Pythagoras experimenting with sound.

Photo: akg-images

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Musician with a harp from a late 15th/early 16th century choir stall at the former abbey church in Vendôme, France.

Photo: Hervé Champollion / akg-images

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An undated portrait from the early 19th Century of George Collins playing the cello by the artist C*** Barter sold by Sotheby's in London on 9 July 1997.

Photo: Sotheby's / akg-images

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A 17th century marble psalterium with case, attributed to Michele Antonio Grandi, in the Museo di Strumenti Musicali,
Florence.

Photo: akg-images / Rabatti - Domingie