As I write this column, my coffee cup sits on a woven fabric coaster displaying the images of two hunch-backed flute players known as Kokopelli. Most people in Grand Junction are familiar with ...

THERE are breathy notes in a house in the hills of the Central Valley, a sound that is more moody and rousing even than the stories behind its arrival there. A1,000-year-old meditation technique, the ...

High in the mountains of Peru, the sound of pan flutes is carried through the air on the wings of the condor, an ancient echo of years gone by. On Friday at 8 p.m., the Boston-based group INCA SON — ...

Flutes and their kin, including whistles, ocarinas, recorders and pipe organs, are among music’s oldest and most versatile instruments. Yet science has long had trouble understanding all but the most ...