Flute is Ancient
The first flute-like instrument was found in Germany, and is about 35 000 years old. There have been inscriptions found in Egypt that suggest the flute existed there a long time ago. By 300 AD there was a Chinese character connected to the flute, and it was suggested that it had existed for over 300 years. The earliest clear picture of a transverse flute is found one or two hundred years before Christ, in Etrusia.
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