Sean Arawjo wants people to see — and hear — that playing the flute can be fun. Arawjo is the artistic director of Williamsburg-based Flute Frenzy, a nonprofit that provides instruction and ...

It’s carved from the bone of a cave bear – and it sounds hauntingly beautiful. Archaeologists have found a pre-historic instrument carved from cave bear bones, and it can still be played today. The ...

Something in all living things responds mysteriously to the sound of wind in the reeds. At the gentle pleasing of a flute, certain crabs glide out of their caves and sit listening under water.

When Rene Jenkins blows into his digeridoo, all senses are trained on him. Sounding a deep and resonant timbre, he moves through a group with the silent agility of a wild cat, producing a cadence as ...

He raises the hollowed block of wood to his lips, draws a breath and then exhales. An F-sharp hovers in the morning air and then vanishes. It’s called “first breath,” Kent Bush says. Many flutes come ...

Originally a resource for sheet music, Flute World expanded into a business and resource, concentrating on flutes.

When did flutes start being held sideways, and are there any that you play vertically instead? We dive into the history of classical music’s transverse instrument. In 2008, at Hohle Fels, a cave in ...

Movies have a way of making us laugh, cry, or hold our breath in suspense. Music is a big part of why this happens. A soft ...

Kawika Pangelinan has become a skilled and self-taught craftsman of numerous types of Hawaiian musical instruments.

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...