Everybody loves the flute. Along with the drum, it's among the oldest of musical instruments, going back 35,000 to 40,000 years. In those days, they made flutes from bear bones, mammoth tusks and ...

Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...

Many of us know the recorder as the plastic pipe that gets handed out in elementary school music class. More closely resembling a toy than something a rock star would carry, it doesn’t have a ...

"This Dover edition is a new English translation, with Introduction and Notes by the translator, of Hotteterre's Principes de la flûte traversiére, etc., first published in Paris in 1707." ...

Songs of medicine men -- Songs related to irrigation and crops -- Songs related to corn -- Songs related to wheat -- Buffalo dance songs -- Songs of the winter-solstice ceremony -- Bow and arrow dance ...