PACIFICA — When Gail Edwards’ flute students get hung up on the fingering or rhythm of a song, her advice is to “just be free and play it as if you were singing.” The allusion to singing is not ...

It’s one thing to be able to transcribe music from a flute, and it’s another to be able to make a flute play pre-written music. The latter is what [Abhilash Patel] decided to pursue in the flute ...

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 ...

A rugged ironworker dons a hard hat, and use his work break to play spellbinding music over the drips and clangs of a concrete space. If you woke up thinking ‘all I need to see today is a hard ...

For music connoisseurs, the mellifluous notes flowing from a bamboo flute is always an aural treat. Recently, the music aficionados in the capital city were in for one such treat when ...

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 ...

Do you have a favorite instrument? If so, how does hearing that instrument make you feel? Happy? Calm? Maybe it just makes you want to get up and dance! In today’s story we’ll hear about an instrument ...

A classically trained flutist, the singer, rapper and songwriter spent more than three hours admiring the flute collection at the Library of Congress. Madison’s instrument was made for the second ...