It’s carved from the bone of a cave bear – and it sounds hauntingly beautiful. Archaeologists have found a pre-historic instrument carved from cave bear bones, and it can still be played today. The ...

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 ...

A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence that ...

The wing bone of a griffon vulture with five precisely drilled holes in it is the oldest known musical instrument, a 35,000-year-old relic of an early human society that drank beer, played flute and ...

“Nocturne” is the first solo album from Native American flute virtuoso R. Carlos Nakai since 2008. With more than 40 albums in 35 years, Nakai has received 11 Grammy nominations and has collaborated ...

The first musical instrument to arrive with European colonisers in Australia was a piano made in 1780 – but there are older ones still being played ...

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 ...

It was heralded as the world’s oldest musical instrument; a bone with two holes in it seemingly made by Neanderthals to serenade their companions. But now a study says it’s not an instrument at all - ...