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The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. According to the instrument classification of Hornbostel-Sachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones.
A musician who plays the flute can be referred to as a flute player, a flautist, a flutist, or less commonly a fluter.
Aside from the voice, flutes are the earliest known musical instruments. A number of flutes dating to about 43,000 to 35,000 years ago have been found in the Swabian Alb region of Germany. These flutes demonstrate that a developed musical tradition existed from the earliest period of modern human presence in Europe.
The word flute first entered the English language during the Middle English period, as floute,, or else flowte, flo(y)te, possibly from Old French flaute and from Old Provençal flaüt,or else from Old French fleüte, flaüte, flahute via Middle High German floite or Danish fluit. Attempts to trace the word back to a Latin root have been pronounced "phonologically impossible" or "inadmissable". The first known use of the word flute was in the 14th century. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this was in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Hous of Fame, ca. 1384.
Actors: William Shakespeare (writer), Teresa Dahl-Bredine (actress), Teresa Dahl-Bredine (producer), Bo Bergstrom (editor), Bo Bergstrom (producer), Bo Bergstrom (writer), Bo Bergstrom (director), Joseph Rivers (composer), Claire McDaniel (actor), Patrick Rogers (actor), Jesse Seavers (actor), Andrew Tegarden (actor), Mitch Wilcox (actor), Elan Wittrock (actor), Becca Anderson (actress),
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Keywords: cinematic-fusion, death, dvd, experimental-film, independent-film, love, lullaby, shakespeare's-a-midsummer-night's-dreamActors: Bob Koester (producer), Steve Wagner (editor), Tom Koester (director), Ari Brown (actor), Ari Brown (actor), Ari Brown (actor), Yosef Ben Israel (actor), Pharez Whitted (actor), Avreeayl Ra (actor), Kirk Brown (actor),
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Keywords: based-on-play, independent-film, shakespeare's-a-midsummer-night's-dreamActors: Brian Large (director), Pier Luigi Pizzi (miscellaneous crew), Marilyn Horne (actress), Jane Seymour (producer), Lotfi Mansouri (miscellaneous crew), William Matteuzzi (actor), Kathleen Kuhlmann (actress), Judy Flannery (producer), Ludovico Ariosto (writer), Alfred Muller (editor), Peter McClintock (miscellaneous crew), Ugo Tessitore (miscellaneous crew), Sandra Walker (actress), Susan Patterson (actress), Jeffrey Gall (actor),
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