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The Vaucanson Automat Flute Player is an android automaton playing the transverse flute, designed and produced by Jacques de Vaucanson and presented to the public in 1738. It faithfully recreates the playing of a flautist on an instrument identical to those in use at the time.
This is a list of notable flute players, organized alphabetically by the musical genre in which they are best known. Western Classical. Richard Adeney; Egidius Aerts;
The Flute-Player (Gollancz, 1979) is a fiction book by British novelist, poet, playwright and translator Donald Michael Thomas, known as D. M. Thomas. Thomas considers the book to be one of his six strongest novels. [1] It was Thomas's first novel to be published, though it was the second he had written. [2]
Robert Mirabal (born October 6, 1966) is a Pueblo musician and Native American flute player and maker from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico.. His flutes are world-renowned and have been displayed at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of the American Indian.
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Chaurasia was born in Allahabad (1938) (present day Prayagraj) in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. [2] His mother died when he was six years old. He had to learn music without his father's knowledge, as his father wanted him to become a wrestler.
Sir James Galway OBE (born 8 December 1939) is an Irish [1] [2] virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute". [3] After several years working as an orchestral musician, he established an international career as a solo flute player.
Fonville is the flute player, and is listed as such, on the recording credits for the theme song of the 1971 film Shaft, recorded by Isaac Hayes in 1971. AllMusic ' s François Couture describes Fonville as, "one of the strongest contemporary flutists."