In a New York Times story today called "Flutes Offer Clues to Stone-Age Music", archaeologists have reported the discovery last fall of a bone flute and two fragments of ivory flutes that they said represented the earliest known flowering of music-making in Stone Age culture. They said the bone flute with five finger holes, found at Hohle Fels Cave in the hills west of Ulm, in southwestern Germany, was “by far the most complete of the musical instruments so far recovered from the caves” in a region where pieces of other flutes have been turning up in recent years.
The flutes are thought to be as much as 40,000 years old, meaning it took mankind approximately 39,959 years of flute-playing to get here:
... 39,963 years to get here:
And 39,995 to get here:
how many years to get to Zamfir? Or is that considered an alternate path?
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