oldest playable flute (not the Neanderthal fragment)

From: Ralf Muhlberger (ralf@dstc.edu.au)
Date: Mon Sep 11 2000 - 22:54:22 PDT

Reported here:

   http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/flute990922.html

is an ancient flute found in China, that is still playable. It's
end blown, and very proto-shakuhachi like. What I also found quite
interesting is the similarity of shape of bone to the bamboo
instruments we play on now.

Ralf

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 The heart of bamboo is hollow;
 by means of this emptiness, the path is maintained.
 - Haku Raku Ten, "A history of the Cultivation of Bamboo"

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