![]() ![]() Zaftig flute-playing rapper Lizzo didn’t quite make the cut, but let’s at least give her props for trying something new (one assumes James Galway never shook his rump while tootling). Up for the challenge, there proved to be enough to make it difficult to limit the list to just 25 (sorry Herbie Mann). This expands a topic yours truly tackled years ago in a published article when it was posited by a reader in a magazine that there were very few rock flute players (indeed most music fans can only think of one). The songs are not all rock, but generally that is the category of the music included. This list will be of known musicians which leaves out unknown session players otherwise a song like “Comin’ In The Back Door” by The Baja Marimba Band would be included (one of the Wrecking Crew played on it, but who?). ![]() The kind of instrument we will look at exclusively has a hole meant to be blown over, not into and is categorized as a Western Concert Flute. There are myriad variations – the piccolo, fife, tin whistle, recorder, etc. Crude flutes made from bone and tusks have been dated back as far as 35-42,000 years (at least a hollow tube with holes in it meant to be blown into). Family flautists Brenna and Cheryl demanded equal time for their chosen instrument so this month we will look at the woodwind without a reed – the flute. Two posts ago your RnR Dentist tackled the bagpipes in a rock music context.
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