The pipe was a simple three-holed flute that could be played with one hand; the tabor is more commonly known today as a snare drum.

It could have been a simple flute or a whistle and was associated with an apparently non-Neanderthal archaic human species.

He gave me three vases in exchange for a gnomish copper stewpot, and the same for a simple wooden flute.

Raymond claimed that his first instrument was a simple flute that he had carved out of a fishing pole.

The oldest object that some scholars refer to as a musical instrument, a simple flute, dates back as far as 67,000 years.

It has three holes and may either have been a simple flute or whistle.

In China, a simple flute is used, which has no keys.

The xiāo is a very ancient Chinese instrument usually thought to have developed from a simple end-blown flute used by the Qiang people of Southwest China in ancient period.

Recently, archaeologists have discovered evidence suggesting that the simple transverse flutes (though without the distinctive mokong of the dizi) have been present in China for over 9,000 years.

These flutes share common features of other simple flutes from cultures all around the world, including the ney, an end-blown cane flute which was depicted in Egyptian paintings and stone carvings.