In a remarkable archaeological discovery, a team of Franco-Israeli researchers has unearthed seven ancient wind instruments, known as flutes, at the Eynan-Mallaha site in northern Israel. These flutes ...

Although the prehistoric site of Eynan-Mallaha in northern Israel has been thoroughly examined since 1955, it still holds some surprises for scientists. Seven prehistoric wind instruments known as ...

BERLIN – 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 ...

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 ...

A lively Lizzo performance called attention to historical instruments constructed out of crystal, but crystal isn’t the only odd material for making music. Sam Walters is the associate editor at ...

What is it about the flute that captivates our being? The legendary Sufi thinker Hazrat Inayat Khan, who wrote extensively on ‘Brahma Naad’ or ‘Sawt Surmad,’ the primordial sound, explained that it ...

Playing the flute could reduce the risk of developing sleep apnoea, according to new findings presented at the Sleep and Breathing Conference in Barcelona. A report in The Times of India says ...