Press release from Noteworthy Sheet Music - Transcription of Debussy’s Première Rhapsodie For Alto Flute

When Washington brought Hessian Baron von Steuben to America, he raised the standards of the American army and brought significance to the inspection ceremony...

Perhaps for us classically trained players, it isn't easy to see what a jazz musician has to know to be successful...

Fernand Dufrene preferred fishing to flute playing and seemed unaware of his fame and the influence he had in music...

Though Giorgi patented his vertical flute, he wasn't the first to have the idea as an Italian, Camillo Bergonzoni, patented a vertical flute in 1879...

There have been many inventors tinkering with flute design, but through it all, the flute of Theobald Boehm still emerges as the best!...

We can't help feeling sorry for poor Gordon. He seems to have invented rather similar ideas at the same time as Boehm, but didn't have the genius of Boehm for improving them and making them workable...

Jules Demersseman was born in Holland in 1833 and when only 12 years of age received his first prize in performance...

With instruments that could be heard from a mile away on a clear day, it's easy to imagine the duty pair fifer and drummer acting as the soldier's morning alarm clock...

'The Monarch of flute players', so wrote the US critics when they heard George Barrère...