Flute

The flute is among the oldest instruments we know of. Bone examples more than 40,000 years old have been found in southern Germany, and every major culture has since developed its own tradition: the Chinese dizi, the Andean quena, the Japanese shakuhachi, the Irish wooden flute, the Persian ney, the Hindustani bansuri. The forms vary enormously. End-blown, side-blown, with a fipple or without, cy... Read more