The $1,000 flute somehow ended up in California, and police are still working to secure that instrument. It wasn't immediately clear how the alleged burglars got into the school in the first place.

But Willowbrook resident Regina Magid was lucky: The $1,000 flute she forgot on a Manhattan train on Tuesday came back to her on Thursday without a scratch.

We consulted with flutists, resident artists, teachers, and orchestra members about the best flutes for beginners, with picks from Yamaha, Gemeinhardt, Pearl, Di Zhao, Burkart, and Eastman.

There's something magical about a flute. That's what a high school music student learned after leaving hers on a Manhattan train, where it rode the rails for a day and a half before a subway ...

The theory, published in Scientific Reports on June 9, is largely based off a multidisciplinary study of seven flutes, or aerophones, that were among the more than 1,000 bird bones discovered at ...