Good music they say, can help lift your mood anytime, anywhere you hear it. Musicians are considered to be magicians who can create a wonderful experience with their skilled hands, while playing with a range of musical instruments. The origin of music is as old as the stone ages, with drawings being found of pre-historic times, showing different people producing sound from different objects.

Even the Mahabharata, one of India's very famous epics, depicts Lord Krishna, playing a flute and enchanting the people of his village with it. It is portrayed as an essential part of his character, with it being played by him both in solitude and in a group to entertain his friends. Since then, it has been an essential part of Indian culture and music.

Being a light weight and small instrument, it is easy to carry and portable enough to be transportable wherever one wants to take it and play. It is an instrument which is played by blowing air through its tipped end in a slow and smooth manner. The passage of air through the flute is controlled by the player's fingers, who uses them to open and close the holes on the flute. This rhythmic opening and closing of holes on the flute produces a musical sound at varying pitches, as per the musical composition.

To understand more about how a flute plays and learn to play it professionally, you should enrol to an institute that offers flute teacher in Kolkata, the city of arts and music. Kolkata has a rich history in musical arts and many famous artists have their origins in this city. Hence, you can definitely expect some of the best teachers here.

Learning to play a flute is not easy as it needs one to have a good control on his breathing and being able to release it slowly and gradually as required. Performers also need to be able to hold a deepbreath for long periods of time often spanning two to three minutes. Once one learns to play the flute, he can also begin playing other wind instruments with ease such as the saxophone and the trumpet, which is very popular especially at weddings.

The best part of wind instruments is they can be used to play almost any musical composition, individually without the need for other musical instruments to join in. The notes of a flute are believed to have a relaxing influence on the listener and help him become stress free easily.

Those who love music, but are not comfortable playing the flute can try their hand at string based instruments like the guitar and violin etc. Guitars are all about strumming a set of tight strings, strung from 2 ends. A pluck, a plastic bit is most often uses to strum the strings, but that can even be done by hand. One of the hands is used for strumming the strings, while the other hand pins the strings to the guitar.

The resulting tension, in the string produces a musical note, known as a chord. This set of chords played together creates a composition of music as we know it. Guitars are the most popular musical instrument due to the range of sounds they can produce and their versatility.

Nowadays, there is a trend to play fusion music also known as jugalbandi which is basically a musical composition, using just two musical instruments, being played together. A guitar and flute compliment each other perfectly for this composition and is something you can learn to do when you join a flute teacher in Kolkata. You have the choice of learning either instrument as long as you have the skill and love for playing it.