Sean Arawjo wants people to see — and hear — that playing the flute can be fun. Arawjo is the artistic director of Williamsburg-based Flute Frenzy, a nonprofit that provides instruction and ...

Something in all living things responds mysteriously to the sound of wind in the reeds. At the gentle pleasing of a flute, certain crabs glide out of their caves and sit listening under water.

He raises the hollowed block of wood to his lips, draws a breath and then exhales. An F-sharp hovers in the morning air and then vanishes. It’s called “first breath,” Kent Bush says. Many flutes come ...

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 ...

Lizzo is basking in her historical glory after playing a two-century-old crystal flute previously owned by the fourth president of the United States. The “About Damn Time” and “Truth Hurts” singer, ...

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

This inventive pan flute sounds straight out of a retro sci-fi movie. There aren’t too many uses for a bicycle wheel once it’s served its purpose... ... unless ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The keyboard of a standard piano has 88 white and black keys, each a semitone away from its neighbour. These are the building blocks of ...

At this summer’s classical music concerts, you could of course find a healthy array of violins, trumpets and cellos. But amid the familiar strings and brass have sprouted some odd instruments and ...