What kids of instrument have strings? Guitars? Sitars? How do you play a drum, or a nose flute? What kind of sound would you get by blowing into a big shell? What instruments do you think people play in Japan, the USA, Mexico or Malaysia, and in other parts of the world? In the different countries of the world, people are living very different lives. The clothes they wear, the food they eat, the homes they live in and the toys and games they play with can tell us a lot about them.