One of the Geissenklösterle flutes; an Upper Paleolithic artifact of the Aurignacian culture, made of a swan-bone, and possibly the oldest of its kind. Discovered in the Geissenklösterle cave, S. Germany, & dated to ~42000 BP. Now in Landesmuseum Stuttgart , nr. LMW Gk 24-197 [1688 x 3000]
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Usually it’s referred as the 1st flute from Geissenklösterle, which is now housed in the Landesmuseum-Stuttgart. Two more from the same site, perhaps not that well-preserved, are in the Blaubeuren Prehistoric Museum
info [german] via [https://www.urmu.de/digitale-sammlung/objekt/schwanenfloete-gk-24-197](https://www.urmu.de/digitale-sammlung/objekt/schwanenfloete-gk-24-197)
photo by Thilo Parg in [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Floete_Schwanenknochen_Geissenkloesterle_Blaubeuren.jpg](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Floete_Schwanenknochen_Geissenkloesterle_Blaubeuren.jpg)
interesting thing, perhaps it is a shamanic instrument, because the swan was considered a creature located between the worlds
That flute’s older than some of us and still has better tone than my playlists.