Yards away, a teenager music student searches for his flute in the remains of his flattened house.

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This sonata, however, is in A Minor, creating all sorts of problems for a player using a fourth flute, which is more suited for flat keys.

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This key component of the festival takes the form of ritual dancing to flute music and drums for an abundant harvest of rice crops.

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In an age before intellectual specialisation, it was not uncommon for a factory owner to read philosophy or for a doctor to play the flute beautifully.

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It is a key component of the festival and takes the form of ritual dancing to flute music and drums for an abundant harvest of rice crops.

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Hailing primarily from Australia, pinks are so rare that a year's worth of mining for them would only fill a champagne flute.

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Mozart used trombones for this purpose in his operas The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, and he included a prominent trombone solo in his Requiem.

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The Beastie Boys are sued for using a six-second snippet of an obscure flute recording--even though they got a release from the record company beforehand.

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They stayed for hours, washing load after load while Lanier serenaded her with a Japanese bamboo flute.

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For example, Champagne can actually be better enjoyed from a wide glass, versus the ubiquitous Champagne flute.

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