A beat-up East Asian Sheng mouth organ shows up at 8:00 in this #BBC doc. I dropped a comment that cousins of those were developed 3,000 years ago and then carried back to Europe on the Silk Road in the 1600s and started spawning the harmonica, melodica, reed organ, #accordion and all Western free-reeds 🪗
#MusicHistory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkgNP5GWE-k&t=480s