Somewhere in the writings of the 17th century Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi, he reports that the tanbur (a banjo-like instrument, which he played himself and which I've just started learning) was the favourite instrument in Sodom and Gomorrah.

The Pictish Lethendy stone in Perthshire has a famous picture featuring a harpist and a triple pipe player. It has been suggested that this was an early version of the "welcome to heaven, here's your harp... welcome to hell, here's your accordion" joke.