flute
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Mr. Threadgill, who plays alto saxophone and flute and is a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, first assembled this band 25 years ago to further a compositional strategy that is singular and yet invites improvised collaboration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
But the tracks are enriched with synthesizers, violin, flute, trumpet and clarinet — all five members are multi-instrumentalists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Near Darkness lurks a table laden with sugar-crusted fruit and an elaborately stemmed flute holding what looks like champagne.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
One woman whips out a flute to play a song from KPop Demon Hunters.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Yonder from the fields, like flute notes, sounded the creaking of the water wheels.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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Mr. Ehrlich has recorded them in a variety of settings featuring saxophones, clarinets and flutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
As Sunday night turned into Monday morning, and the strains of fiddles and flutes drifted through the city streets, people hailed the success of Belfast's first ever All-Ireland Fleadh.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Back in the members’ club, surrounded by budding Renaissance men clinking Champagne flutes, Peter Mignacca announced that he was here for practical tips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
On Wednesday afternoon, it was a pleasant 77 degrees, with drums, flutes and cymbals being heard around the Manhattan Beach campus as band members practiced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
She drops the flutes and claps a hand to her mouth.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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It's a small, intimate space, with fluted vaults and brick-lined walls that echo the Art Deco architecture of the former power station.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Its details are sharply chiseled and fluted, in the Streamline Moderne mode, and they turn what would otherwise be raw construction into lyrical architecture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Custom kitchens designed by Christopher Peacock are encased in wood and fluted glass cabinetry with 2-inch-thick Calacatta marble on the kitchen islands.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
And there were, of course, the signature grandfather clocks that made Howard Miller famous, both traditional designs of fluted hardwood and contemporary deconstructions with visible gears.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
The chair had been pulled up to the oversized fireplace Carl had built, inside of which stood tall, fluted andirons.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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Both children and adults are thought to have participated in finger fluting, and similarly, Bennett said that the Quesang prints should also be considered art.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2021
Designs by architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe can be seen today in some of the Capitol building’s most elaborate carvings, such as the fluting on interior columns to resemble cornstalks.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021
Mirianashvili opted for a standard drinking glass, the kind with fluting at the base and a wide band near the rim.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
Grant based her character on her own mother and aunt, ladies with high, fluting voices and a “wonderful, ridiculous part to them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2017
There was not a piece of armour proofed in Europe but what Unde Dap had a theory about it He was furious with the new Gothic style, with its ridges and scallop-patterns and fluting.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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