The Guardian picks the top songs featuring flutes, pipes or whistles

[Bucka001]

Some prog-related stuff going on in this article...

http://www.theguardian.com/music/mus...istles-results

[bob_32_116]

What a great eclectic list. And I can't argue with No. 1.

[Oreb]

Debussy's Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, (1894) 'kickstarted modern classical music'??!!

I guess this self-dubbed expert had never heard of Tristan und Isolde (premiered 1865). I know it's long, but he'd only have needed to listen up to the first chord in the prelude to hear the birth of 'modern classical'.

Still, I don't suppose anyone can meaningfully accuse The Guardian of being overly concerned with historical accuracy

[Yaman Aksu]

To pick a tune unfamiliar to me from that list, I started with the Tom Hark tune, randomly ---- just because I wanted to find something from that list with less enjoyable flute than in Camel's Stationary Traveller. Got lucky with the first pick ---- I'm not even sure the flutes in that Hark tune are in-tune (but the tune is okay). Admittedly, ST isn't a song where flute's central role continues throughout…but the song is so great.

I'd forgotten to include ST in my recent post in the Ten Best Instrumental Prog Tracks thread -- now fixed that.

[JKL2000]

Where the frack is Zamfir?

[walt]

Too bad a track of Indian bansuri(bamboo flute) by Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia(or any other Indian flute player) was not included.

[EJD]

No Wolfe Tones?

[Mythos]

Where the frack is Zamfir?

Exactly what I was going to say...!

LOL