National Flute Association flute choir, and masterclass categories and four non-performance competitions, which highlight new flute music, research, and entrepreneurship. The NFA commissions original compositions for all members of the flute family. The New Music Advisory Committee, established in 1985, works with the NFA Board to create opportunities for flutists to interact with contemporary composers by playing their music and ensuring today's composers create substantial repertoire for flute players. The NFA has commissioned more than 70 new works for both flute and piccolo. Beginning in 1986, the NFA has commissioned a new piece to be used as repertoire in the Young Artist Competition
The Bone Flute did not allow the story to be included on that year's Nebula Awards anthology compiling the nominated and winning short stories. It has only been reprinted twice in the original language: on Tuttle's anthology of science fiction stories "A Spaceship Built of Stone and Other Stories", and a 1995 various authors anthology titled "Lost In Space". A Danish translation (entitled "Benfløjten") was published in "Forum Fabulatorum" () no. 2, March 1983. In 2011, the story was reissued as an ebook, with a specially-written afterword by Tuttle regarding the Nebula awards situation. The Bone Flute "The Bone Flute" is a science