Listen Up! "F" is for Flute

FFrench horn. Fiddle. Flute!A part of every high school marching band, and while I took piano lessons as a kid, I envied the girls (it was always girls) who carried around their little flute cases. The delicate silver instrument that went everywhere.A flute is a woodwind but without the reed. Objects believed to be the first flutes (anywhere from 35,000 to 43,000 years ago) have been found in the caves in Germany. Those first flutes were made of bones.Not today. And after watching tons of videos, I chose this one for its sheer joy:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HyNydVIji4 

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