In a scientist’s hands, even a blowtorch or a 50,000-year-old cave bear bone can make beautiful music – and teach people a thing or two at the same time. Let’s take a musical tour, from prehistory to ...

“My flute always stays with me,” said Nicole Esposito, an extraordinary, world-traveling flutist and University of Iowa master teacher in the School of Music. Well, except for that one time. Professor ...

Such amateurs of the flute as Rockwell Kent and Charles Gates Dawes know how hard it is to play correctly. Great flautists like New York’s Georges Barrère or Philadelphia’s William Kincaid have taken ...

A vulture-bone flute discovered in a European cave is likely the world's oldest recognizable musical instrument and pushes back humanity's musical roots, a new study says. Found with fragments of ...

Ever looked at your smartphone charging port and thought: "Hey, that'd make a great mouthpiece for a digital flute of some kind?" Well, an Italian company has done one better by creating a ...