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A playable bone flute discovered in China is dated to about 9,000 years ago. [4] The Americas also had an ancient flute culture, with instruments found in Caral, Peru, dating back 5,000 years [5] and in Labrador dating back about 7,500 years. [6] The bamboo flute has a long history, especially in China and India.
The Aurignacian flutes were created between 43,000 and 35,000 years ago. The flutes, made of bone and ivory, represent the earliest known musical instruments and provide unmistakable evidence of prehistoric music. The flutes were found in caves with the oldest known examples of figurative art.
Dülon was born in Oranienburg.Although he went blind due to an eye infection caused by medical malpractice when he was only six weeks old, a this did not prevent him from taking music lessons, first from his father, a music-loving tax official, and later from organist Johann Karl Anderson (1774–1815) who taught him piano and figured bass, and the equally blind flutist Joseph Winter who had ...
The standard concert flute, also called C flute, Boehm flute, silver flute, or simply flute, is pitched in C and has a potential range of three and a half octaves starting from the note C 4 . The flute's highest pitch is usually given as C 7 or (in more modern flute literature) D 7.
The oldest written sources reveal the Chinese were using the kuan (a reed instrument) and hsio (or xiao, an end-blown flute, often of bamboo) in the 12th-11th centuries b.c., followed by the chi (or ch'ih) in the 9th century b.c. and the yüeh in the 8th century b.c. [3] Of these, the chi is the oldest documented cross flute or transverse flute ...
Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist.Rampal popularised the flute in the post–World War II years, recovering flute compositions from the Baroque era, [1] and spurring contemporary composers, such as Francis Poulenc, to create new works that have become modern standards in the flautist's repertoire.
She was a driving force behind the scenes of the chamber music festival started by her and her husband, Jim. A Door County service will be held Dec. 1.
This flute was owned and played by the famous flutist William Kincaid until shortly before his death in 1967. In 1986 this flute was auctioned by Christie's for $170,000 plus $17,000 for the auction house fee, the highest price ever paid for a flute. The same flute was again put up for auction at Christie's in 2009 and sold for $37,500.