"The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression."

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But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.

— Ludwig van Beethoven