Long before writing, agriculture, or the wheel, human beings were making music. The physical proof survives in a handful of slender, hollow objects pulled from Ice Age caves in Europe, drilled with ...

Discover ancient musical instruments like flutes made of bird bones, revealing a rich musical culture from the Upper Palaeolithic period. Thirty-five thousands years before the likes of Kraftwerk, ...

One of Tanzania’s most endangered possessions isn’t its wildlife; it’s its music. Dozens of musical instruments – and the skill set to play them – are facing extinction in Tanzania, which is why ...

When did flutes start being held sideways, and are there any that you play vertically instead? We dive into the history of classical music’s transverse instrument. In 2008, at Hohle Fels, a cave in ...

In 1922 Joseph H. Kraus proposed a “smell organ.” A middle C would smell like a rose; bass notes like clove and vanilla.

Perforated bones excavated at an ancient settlement in northern Israel may be the oldest wind instruments found in the region. The small flutes could have been used to make music, call birds or even ...

Guwahati: Flute makers of the city are witnessing a significant surge in demand for their handcrafted instruments as music practitioners turn to locally manufactured flutes, crediting the superior ...