A fujara is (wait for it…) a large Slovak folk shepherd’s overtone fipple flute. Still not sure what it is? Here’s a bit more detail: the fujara is essentially a large woodwind instrument, in the same ...

Flautist and composer Daniela Mars performs her new single 'Heartweaving' We begin this week with a spotlight on the very rarely heard bass member of the flute family. Flautist and composer Daniela ...

Fallon has embarked on the wonderful world of low flutes, but he could do with some practice. Here are our fully qualified, no-holds-barred, professionally-informed thoughts on his performance. But ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A contrabass flute looks like a flute on steroids that a professional wrestler on steroids tried to tie into a knot. Luckily, it sounds better than it looks. The West Michigan Flute ...

If you've never heard a contrabass flute before then you are in for a treat. Daniela Mars conjures a haunting evocation of the first moments of morning light The contrabass flute doesn't get many ...

Two members of New York’s Argento Ensemble acquired new instruments this year. Canadian flautist Erin Lesser and Irish clarinettist Carol McGonnell added the contrabass versions of their instruments ...

Pravin Godkhindi, among Karnataka’s most best-known flautists, has achieved another feat: He is the only Indian to play the world’s largest flute, the contrabass. He will perform on it at a concert on ...