Few Chinese people have heard of the yue, an ancient wind instrument that belonged to the flute family. However, this flute, the name of which is pronounced the same as the word for "music" in Chinese ...

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THERE are breathy notes in a house in the hills of the Central Valley, a sound that is more moody and rousing even than the stories behind its arrival there. A1,000-year-old meditation technique, the ...

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. Found in the ...

Archaeologists say they have unearthed the world's oldest musical instruments. They are flutes, made of vulture bone and mammoth tusks. They were found in caves in southwestern Germany and date back ...

The internationally acclaimed flautist Pt Santosh Sant captivated the audience with his divine flute recital during a musical ...

Seven miniature flutes carved from the wing bones of prehistoric birds have been discovered in Northern Israel – and they uncover a long-lost piece of humans’ musical history. The 12,000-year-old ...

Perforated bones excavated at an ancient settlement in northern Israel may be the oldest wind instruments found in the region. The small flutes could have been used to make music, call birds or even ...

ZHENGZHOU, China, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Three flutes made from bird bones found in an tomb in central China are evidence remote ancestors played music long before they could write, archaeologists say. Made ...