Raised in a family of musicians, Melissa Little Wolf Villalobos was introduced to Native American music by her elders. She first heard the sounds of Native American flautist R. Carols Nakai, of Navajo ...

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 ...

In Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, the bamboo bansuri is more than a musical instrument—it is a living family craft. From melas and ...

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 ...

From a Japanese bamboo flute that is harvested and then cured to an unusual fretless zither and a blue Fender Strat, three performers tell the stories of the instruments they cherish A central figure ...

The next Kontakt instrument in the Primaries series is a "full-spectrum collection of uniquely expressive woodwind ...

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 ...

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 ...