World Shakuhachi Festival is usually held in cities like Tokyo, London, Sydney and New York; this year's festival is in ...

History Aside from the human voice, flutes are the earliest recorded musical instruments. Most modern concert flutes are made of silver, but this wasn't always the case: instruments dating back around ...

A blend of wind instruments — with music bright and brisk or darkly expressive — and melodious in their own ways, will be ...

Archaeologists discovered flutes that were made ... If all artifacts created to make music and sing were accounted for, there ...

A bansuri flute musician came to San Francisco State University to educate and entertain the audience with classical Indian music.

To play, the musician holds the long tube of the flute in both hands and blows across a small hole at one end. The holes can be opened and closed by pressing down different metal keys. The flute ...

Debopriya and Suchismita expressed gratitude to their gurus, the late Pandit Bholanath Prasanna and Padma Vibhushan Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, who trained them without ever viewing music through the ...