The Society of the Ancient Instruments, whose recordings have long been treasured by chamber-music addicts, is a nonprofit labor of love. It is the creation of a little grey-maned, Dutch-born ...

with ideas for recreating these aspects using classroom instruments. The music arrangements contain 'ancient' sounds of the reed flute, the harp / lyre and all sorts of Egyptian percussion ...

The world's oldest orchestral music, gagaku was imported from mainland China in ancient times ... the eternal tunes that harmonized the musical instruments' nature with human emotions.