The late Don Gonzalo Fernández (1930-?) is sadly not that well-known today, and as I discovered in preparing this post, very little information is available about him online. He left Cuba for Paris in ...

Chinese flute virtuoso Tang Junqiao and her team will reproduce the sound of an ancient bone flute in May. [Photo by Zhang Meng/Xinhua] Chinese musicians are rehearsing a musical to reproduce the ...

Composing music can be quite difficult – after all, you have to keep in mind all of the elements of musical theory, from time signature and key signature to the correct length for all of the notes. A ...

A bone flute unearthed at Jiahu in Wuyang county, Henan province. CHINA DAILY ZHENGZHOU－More than 8,000 years ago, a red-crowned crane died, leaving behind a bone from its wing to be claimed by ...

When Future’s “Mask Off” was released earlier this year, the internet remixed its bittersweet tale of drug use with video syncs of kids, cartoons, and Ron Burgundy playing the flute—mimicking the ...

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 ...

In Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, the bamboo bansuri is more than a musical instrument—it is a living family craft. From melas and devotional gatherings to trained musicians seeking precise tuning, flutes ...