Discover the world's oldest known musical instrument: a 35,000-year-old flute made from vulture bone, revealing our early musical tradition. A 35,000-year-old flute made of vulture bone found in a ...

Christina Jennings continues to marvel at the deep, existential roots of the flute. It’s an instrument that has long been part of the human creative process, stretching all the way back to the ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump took some time out from his busy despoting schedule to reveal that he was a musical prodigy as a child who played the flute. The flute? I didn’t see that coming. I would have ...

Musical astronaut Catherine Coleman has plenty of flutes to pick from aboard the International Space Station. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...