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The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. According to the instrument classification of Hornbostel-Sachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones.
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Flutes in C. From left to right:
A Renaissance tenor recorder (maple), a baroque-style tenor recorder (plastic), a 6-hole transverse flute (bamboo), a baroque transverse flute (boxwood), a wooden Boehm-system flute (grenadilla), and a modern metal Boehm flute.
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Manchester Evening News
April 21, 2018
At 9.40pm a friendly barman approaches us to advise us that they will shortly have to take our glass flutes as “by law that's the rules now”. We say that's fine. And in all honesty the elegant plastic flute replacements make absolutely no difference to the liquid inside. The key thing for us was that we were stillÃâà...
Oregon ArtsWatch
April 21, 2018
By MARIA CHOBAN. I went to the Friday night fights and a flute recital broke out. Julien Beaudiment, on the left, wielding tone and dynamics with roundhouse and rabbit punches. As light on his feet as Muhammad Ali, the renowned French flutist danced around Portland accompanist Cary Lewis'sÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
April 18, 2018
Musicians, and Libertyville High School faculty members, Claire Birmingham and Laurel Kaiser will perform French composers with jazzy flair at the David Adler Music and Arts Center on Friday, April 27 at 7pm as part of the Adler Center's popular concert series. Flutist and pianist Laurel Kaiser says,Ãâà...
Blue Ribbon News
April 18, 2018
(ROCKWALL, TX — April 17, 2018) Utley Middle School flautist, Lorien Britt, won one of three spots in the 40th Annual Texas Flute Society Flute Festival Junior High School Masterclass. She prepared a difficult solo and sent in an audition tape to compete against other flautists from all over Texas. Lorien will be participatingÃâà...
Redlands Daily Facts
April 18, 2018
The Inland Empire Valley Flute Society is accepting applications for its annual flute-lesson scholarship. The scholarship pays for one-half of the cost of private flute lessons for six months. The application form is available at www.InlandEmpireValleyFluteSociety.com. Applications must be returned by May 1.
Slipped Disc
April 16, 2018
Peter Lloyd, former principal of the London Symphony Orchestra, died today in Bristol, his friends report. He was 86. From 1993, Peter was professor of flute at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Global Times
April 11, 2018
Chinese musicians are currently rehearsing a musical play reproducing the sound of an 8,000-year-old bone-flute ahead of the upcoming Shanghai ... Following the archeological finding of 30 bone-flutes from Jiahu Village in Henan, Chinese flute master Zhao Songting has been invited to play music usingÃâà...
Xinhua
April 10, 2018
In 2016, Tang, a student of the deceased master Zhao, started a project to search for the sound of the ancient flutes. The project was supported by the China National Art Fund. Her team has made over 30 replica flutes, mostly with resin and bamboo, while two were made of bird bone. The flute originated inÃâà...
Minnesota Public Radio News (blog)
April 3, 2018
Why, yes, playing the flute is brain surgery Ãâ÷ Bob Collins April 3, 2018, 8:29 AM Apr 3, 2018 Ãâ÷ 0. If not for science, what would we do for a daily reminder of the power of education, research and the human capacity for greatness? This is Anna Henry, who is playing a flute while undergoing brain surgery. Texas Medical Center.
Tech Times
March 31, 2018
A woman from Texas played the flute while she was lying on the operating table during a major brain surgery. 63-year-old Anna Henry has a hereditary condition that causes her head and hands to shake since she was a child. The trembling, however, worsened a few years ago and already affected herÃâà...
Newsweek
March 29, 2018
Updated | Playing the flute is something Anna Henry was unsure she'd ever be able to do again. Complications from a hand tremor were so severe she couldn't play her favorite instrument. But on March 27, Henry wasn't just able to play her favorite classical tunes again, she was able to play whileÃâà...
WABC-TV
March 29, 2018
A patient at a Texas hospital underwent surgery on her brain with her favorite musical instrument in hand: the flute. Anna Henry was wide awake while doctors performed a deep brain stimulation procedure at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. Henry suffers from a hereditary problem with tremors.
Redlands Daily Facts
March 27, 2018
The Spinet music club heard music for tenor, flute, Native American flutes and harp at two recent meetings. The husband-and-wife team of tenor Julio Batta and flutist Victoria Batta presented the program at the Spinet's March 20 meeting at the home of Keyur and Sweta Shodhan in Redlands. They wereÃâà...
Sussex Countian
March 27, 2018
Bin 66, 20729 Coastal Highway, Rehoboth Beach, will host “Fins & Flutes,” a wine tasting to benefit the Marine Education Research and Rehabilitation Institute, from 4 to 6 p.m. April 9. A $25 entry fee will cover tasting of various wines, appetizers, a raffle and an opportunity to meet members of the MERRÃâà...
Times of India
March 27, 2018
CHANDIGARH: Steady and sweet tune of a 'shankh' (sea-shell) marked the beginning of the divine relationship between Virginia Nicoli's silver flute and Igino Giovanni's saxophone, taking the listeners along with the walls and the space of the auditorium to a land of auditory hallucination and magicalÃâà...
Nerdist
March 25, 2018
I can't play any musical instruments. Also I'm bad at multitasking, which is why I can't listen to a podcast and do anything else at the same time. Why do I mention either of those things? Because it's the only way to explain why the feeling I get when I watch this Medieval enthusiast play a song on three flutesÃâà...
Community Impact Newspaper
March 15, 2018
See classic cars and motorcycles in downtown Georgetown. (Photo courtesy of Pistons on the Square). By Carlie Porterfield | 1:24 pm March 15, 2018. Thursday, March 15. Stroke survivors group meets in Georgetown Baylor Scott & White Health's Stroke Support Group provides resources and support for individuals whoÃâà...
Eater Portland
March 14, 2018
Willamette Week broke the potential name 'Glory Hole' (“mostly a joke,” Brown says), but Brown says Brock still bothers him about his favorite suggestion, 'Magic Fucking Flute.' Other notable examples: 'Dildo Box Dioramas,' 'Trash Panda,' and 'Golden Casket.' The team landed on Poison's Rainbow.
Times of Malta
March 13, 2018
Flute duo Silvio Zammit and Ramona Zammit Formosa will today perform a concert of flute and piano music at the Augustinian Monastery, Valletta. The programme will include Piazzolla's Libertango, Granados' Spanish Dance in G, Lecouna's Mazurka Glissando and Abreu's Tico Tico, and other livelyÃâà...
Classic FM
March 13, 2018
What do you get if you cross a flute player with a beatboxer? Flute-boxing. It's absolutely awesome. Sure, it's impressive when someone can play the flute really well: all that triple-tonguing and crazy-fast tremolos. But check out this cool flautist, who can triple-tongue, tremolo AND beatbox at the same time.
RiverBender.com
March 12, 2018
Two-Hawks has been nominated for an Emmy and a Grammy after the release of Wind Songs, a collection of 21 first-take flute solo improvisations. Two-Hawks said he went into his recording studio and allowed the spirit to guide him to whichever of his collection of more than 70 flutes needed played.
Cincinnati.com
March 1, 2018
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said no criminal charges will be filed at this time against Bradley Garner, a former University of Cincinnati flute professor accused of sexual misconduct with students that spanned two decades. Though his investigation found nothing he could take to a grand jury,Ãâà...
Cincinnati.com
February 28, 2018
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters is set to make a public announcement Thursday, after his office has spent three weeks looking into allegations of sexual misconduct against former University of Cincinnati flute professor Bradley Garner. After The Enquirer reported Feb. 6 that Garner subjectedÃâà...
Indiana Gazette
February 27, 2018
The Flute New Music Consortium was formed in 2013 by flutists for the purpose of continuing to expand the flute repertoire. This is the group's second residency, focused on featuring their most recent large-scale commission, Pann's “Giantess” for flute and piano, which will be premiered by IUP fluteÃâà...
Classic FM
February 27, 2018
You can make a musical instrument out of pretty much anything – a stick of bamboo, a blade of grass or even a carrot. But check out this enterprising musician, who managed to make a flute out of his dad's walking stick. By removing the bottom half of both a walking stick and a flute, flautist Zac Zinger (whatÃâà...
WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
December 31, 1999
WILTON MANORS, FLA. (WSVN) - - Officials are seeking the public's help in locating a flute that was stolen from a vehicle in Wilton Manors, last month. According to Wilton Manors Police, the owner of the instrument, Donna Wissinger, parked her rental vehicle in a parking lot outside Candela Restaurant,Ãâà...
Talk of the Sound
December 31, 1999
NEW ROCHELLE, NY -- The Hudson duo of flutist Morgan Pappas and guitarist Daniel Keene will perform “Earthly Elements,” a rich concert of music to delight the senses, on Sunday, April 22, from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm, in the Ossie Davis Theater of the New Rochelle Public Library. The program will featureÃâà...
Redlands Daily Facts
December 31, 1999
The Spinet music club heard music for tenor, flute, Native American flutes and harp at two recent meetings. The husband-and-wife team of tenor Julio Batta and flutist Victoria Batta presented the program at the Spinet's March 20 meeting at the home of Keyur and Sweta Shodhan in Redlands. They wereÃâà...
Sommelier India (blog)
December 31, 1999
The flute has lost favour with wine lovers as well as some experts as a vessel for serving champagne. Most people agree that the flute's shape is ideal for preserving the bubbles but the aromas get lost if you can't swirl the champagne like with a fine still wine to release its bouquet. Others disagree.
Classic FM
December 31, 1999
How to be a great musician: develop incredible hand-eye coordination. How to be an AWESOME musician: play two instruments at the same time, like this woman. Ariana Piknjač is a flautist and pianist, who has arranged a version of Michael Jackson's 'Smooth Criminal' for one-handed flute and piano.
Times of Malta
December 31, 1999
As part of this season's BOV Opera Week, the Manoel Theatre is today presenting a concert by flutist Rebecca Hall and pianist Lucia Micallef. The flute has always held a special place at the opera. From Carmen's entr'acte to Norma's Casta Diva and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, solos for the flute areÃâà...
Broadway World
December 31, 1999
The program includes Vivaldi's Concerto, "The Storm at Sea," the first of his six flute concertos, which features LACO Principal Flute Joachim Becerra Thomsen; Sarabande from Trios for the King's Bed Chamber by Lully, who was in service to Louis XIV of France; Biber's Ciacona, "Night Watchman" fromÃâà...
City-sentinel
December 31, 1999
“The Oklahoma Flute Society's Annual Flute Fair is a two day event serving Oklahoma area flutists of all ages,” said Dr. Elaine Robinson, OFS president. “Flutists of all ages are welcome – from middle school through adulthood. This year will feature a recital and masterclass by guest artist Molly Barth, fromÃâà...
ArtsATL
December 31, 1999
Skitch plays a mid-1980s solid silver flute made by renowned American flute-maker Jack Moore. His accomplice for the evening, Robert Henry, has long proven himself a fine collaborative pianist, and demonstrated well his skill at bringing important singing lines in his part to the fore without overshadowingÃâà...
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