A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence that ...

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of ...

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 ...