Ancient Flute Found!

Irish Flute
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Previously the honors went to the 9,000 year old (Playable!!!) Red Crane wing bone flutes of Jiahu China and researched by the Brookhaven Labs

http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/1999/bnlpr092299.html

The new record goes to the Conrad team in Tuebingen Germany. It’s 35,000 years old!!!.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/24/prehistoric-german-flute_n_220344.html

Opinions? Comments?
Thomas Hastay.

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See these threads, already in progress. :slight_smile:

https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/35000-year-old-german-flutes/65345/1

https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/oldest-musical-intrument-why-its-a-whistle-of-course/65351/1

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OOPS! Late, as usual…Thanks.