AWARENESS IGNITES ACTION. âAs an educator in the field of microfinance, it is rare to find those opportunities that can bring your students closer to the action before they join the professional world. âI felt that my Human Connections internship this summer was designed specially for me. This experience has transformed me as a person.
Karst Cave, China. Photograph by Raymond Gehman. Looking like the set of a science fiction movie, China's Reed Flute Cave is bathed in purple-blue light. Created by an underground river more than a half million years ago, this highly accessible karst formation is one of the region's most popular tourist attractions.
Despite the implication of this commonly used name, the Irish flute is not an instrument indigenous to Ireland. The simple system, conical-bore flute is what people played before the advent of the modern, Boehm system, Western concert flute in the mid-19th century. Simple-system flutes are usually made of wood (cocus, grenadilla (African blackwood), rosewood, ebony, etc.