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. History Aside from the human voice, flutes ...

Music can come from surprising places—even zoo animal enclosures. One group of (human) performers is proving that you don’t ...

The piccolo looks like the flute, but is much smaller and sounds very high. The alto flute sounds lower than the flute, and is a little longer. Watch some examples below.

A team of students from Cornell University’s Designing with Microcontrollers class developed a solution for this problem by transcribing sounds from a flute into sheet music. The project doesn ...