Thoreau’s flute
Thoreau once described his approach
to playing this flute as
“unpremeditated music,”
improvising against his own echo
while on the water. In 1841,
Ralph Waldo Emerson invited him
to an afternoon gathering, asking him
“to bring your flute for the echo's sake;
though now the wind blows.”
to playing this flute as
“unpremeditated music,”
improvising against his own echo
while on the water. In 1841,
Ralph Waldo Emerson invited him
to an afternoon gathering, asking him
“to bring your flute for the echo's sake;
though now the wind blows.”
