where was music first spawned?

It appears as if the neanderthal beat Homo sapien to the discovery of music. A flute made from a cave bear femur was discovered in a neanderthal camp & dated at ~ 60,000 yrs old and possibly over 80,000 yrs old. This was discovered in Slovenia. The 1st sapien musical instrument was found in China & was 9,000 years old.

This is more detail on the finds:

http://www.greenwych.ca/fl-compl.htm

This is the 9,000 yr old Chinese flute & it is the oldest playable musical instrument anyone has found.

"SEPTEMBER 23, 1999 -- Archaeologists in China have found what is believed to be the oldest still-playable musical instrument: a 9,000-year-old flute carved from the wing bone of a crane. When scientists from the United States and China blew gently through the mottled brown instrument's mouthpiece and fingered its holes, they produced tones unheard for millennia, yet familiar to the modern ear.

"It's a reedy, pleasant sound, a little thin, like a recorder," said Garman Harbottle, a nuclear scientist who specializes in radiocarbon dating at Brookhaven National Laboratory on New York's Long Island. Harbottle and three Chinese archaeologists published their findings in today's issue of the journal Nature.

"The flute was one of several instruments to be uncovered in Jiahu, a excavation site of Stone Age artifacts in China's Yellow River Valley. Archaeologists have also found exquisitely wrought tools, weapons and pottery. Dated to 7,000 B.C., the flute is more than twice as old as instruments used in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and other early civilizations. In all, researchers have found some three dozen bone flutes at Jiahu. Five were riddled with cracks; 30 others had fragmented. The flutes have as many as eight neatly hollowed tone holes and were held vertically to play. The Jiahu flute is considerably more recent than a flutelike bone discovered in 1995 in an excavation of Neanderthal tools in a cave in Slovenia."

http://www.greenwych.ca/fl3debat.htm#From

There are examples of bone whistles which date back to the Late Upper Palaeolithic (before the end of the last ice age). One, for instance, was found in Chelm's Combe rock-shelter, Cheddar, England. (If you want a scholarly reference for this object, see ''Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society', vol 14 (1976), pgs 120-1.)

The first Musical Instruments found belonged to the earliest Egyptian Dynasties around 3000 B.C. and the harp found in the grave of the Sumerian Queen Shubad of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur around 2900 B.C. Of course it is almost certain that instruments,of many kinds existed before. They may have been simple and easy to play, as the first musical compositions of humanity were mostly rhythm, all kinds of percussion instruments and surely the flute.

Maybe People from centuries and centuries and centruies ago liked the sound of the nature and the sound of when you tap things together so they tried to make those sounds and wall-ah..you have music.