February 2017

I am a very bad flute player. I only know a few dozen jigs, two hornpipes, one reel, 14 polkas and that's it. But musical instruments have helped me in my life. In my youth, I only played when I…

The ancients believed that the Earth was surrounded by celestial spheres, which produced divine music as they moved. We lived, so to speak, in a huge musical instrument. It might sound silly, but modern science has proved them right…

By Aaron Kunkler / [email protected] In his workshop in Rochester, on a rainy Wednesday afternoon, Jim Hall carefully placed a 4-foot glass tube on a homemade machine he calls the "Flute…