FLUTE

The flute is a musical instrument first discovered as a fragment of the femur of a juvenile cave bear with two or four holes in it. It was supposedly found about 43,000 years ago in Slovenia.The flute is also a member of the woodwind family. But unlike other woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument. This (aerophone and reedless wind instrument) means that it produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. Because of this, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones. People that play the flute can be called fluters and are almost always or generally great musicians with other different skills. Some different types of flutes (the most important ones) are the Indian flute, the Chinese flute, the Japanese flute, the Sodina and Suling flute, and the Sring flute. Other types are the Diple, the Frula, the Irish flute, the Jazz flute, the kaval flute, the Native American flute, and also the Palendag flute. The flute is one of the instruments used in a lot o different kinds of music like the harmonica (one of the instruments I have written about in one of my recent blogs), for example in classical music, jazz, and here in Colombia, my country, folkloric music.