The sound of flutes tuning and playing is nothing new to Sreemoddi village in Comilla's Homna upazila. Over a century ago two expert flute craftsmen, Kokil Das Bairagi and Deen Bandhu, reached the ...

KOCHI: It took Pramod Chandramohan five years to master the art of flute making. Before that, he used to play the flutes he bought from festival markets. When Pramod started out, he didn’t even know ...

Lizzo stopped by Sesame Street to play a tune for her new friend Elmo, who celebrated the occasion by breaking out a one-of-a-kind flute made out of cookies. “This it, Elmo?” the singer asks in faux ...

ANCIENT Chinese flute-makers rapidly developed complex and standardised instruments capable of playing composed melodies in tune with each other. By the beginning of the 6th millennium BC, the flutes ...

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 ...

To make good music, you need all the instruments to come together and work in harmony. A good musician doesn’t get frustrated that he can’t tune the flute and get it to change I was at a breakfast ...