He is the supreme mechanic of his instrument, and he produces what is surely the most glorious tone that ever came out of a flute: big, round, cool, white, radiant as a September moon.

The wing bone of a griffon vulture with five precisely drilled holes in it is the oldest known musical instrument, a 35,000-year-old relic of an early human society that drank beer, played flute ...

Archaeologists have found a pre-historic instrument carved from cave bear bones, and it can still be played today. The Neanderthal Flute, found in the cave of Divje Babe in Slovenia, is thought to ...

Lyamba plays the nose flute, an ancient instrument he says comes from Morogoro ... By running workshops he’s sharing ideas about African music, but that’s not the only means of preserving ...

Stone Age humans may have ripped raw meat from the bone, but they also played music, according to a study reporting the discovery of a 35,000-year-old flute, the oldest instrument known.

The flute is one of the more overlooked instruments in jazz ... taking advantage of a cadenza at the end to express his ideas even further. At that time there were relatively few “dedicated ...

Lyamba plays the nose flute, an ancient instrument he says comes from Morogoro ... By running workshops he’s sharing ideas about African music, but that’s not the only means of preserving ...