A flute can produce music that touches the deepest corners of the heart. Yet the flute itself does nothing. Music arises only ...

This flute puppet made by ghillieflute has filled me with joy. The DIY puppet is person-shaped and made of yarn, string, washers, a wooden bead, and other found materials. When the flute is played, ...

The flute is one of the more overlooked instruments in jazz, but it’s been making an impact on improvised music for more than 50 years. Let 10 experts take you on a guided tour. By Giovanni Russonello ...

How Did André 3000 Learn To Play The Flute? Dre says he “got schooled by Uber drivers,” since he would often play during rides and learned different cultural approaches to the instrument (it does seem ...

Movies have a way of making us laugh, cry, or hold our breath in suspense. Music is a big part of why this happens. A soft ...

Carla Hayden, librarian of Congress tweets at musician Lizzo regarding the Library of Congress's flute collection. On September 23, 2022, Carla Hayden, the 14th librarian of Congress, and the first ...

Lizzo is good at many things: singing, rapping, twerking… and playing the flute. The very presence of a chubby black woman performing in front of thousands, wearing extravagant show costumes, proudly ...

These days, the only person harder to find than Where's Waldo is André 3000. Luckily, thanks to the internet, every few months, a photo or video of the OutKast member surfaces. Earlier this week, a ...

This week, Andre 3000 released an instrumental album featuring the flute instead of an expected rap album. Scott Simon asks LA Times' August Brown about the flute's decades-long role in pop music.

Raised in a family of musicians, Melissa Little Wolf Villalobos was introduced to Native American music by her elders. She first heard the sounds of Native American flautist R. Carols Nakai, of Navajo ...

It’s a medieval torture device that was used – once upon a more primitive time – for publicly shaming bad musicians and other disturbers of the peace. The contraption, which is essentially a heavy ...