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This is the text of Frank Montano telling about one legend he's heard about the flute, recorded June 26, 1998 by Michael Kline in Washington, D.C.

In the old days, the boys and girls weren’t allowed to associate with each other when they reached puberty until the boy could prove he was able to support a family, to be a man, to have the abilities to hunt and to build a house. One particular boy liked a girl and he couldn’t talk to her – so he had to sit on the other side of the village and watch all day. Then he would sit in the woods and fall asleep. And eventually, they said it was something he heard in his dreams, and when he woke up, he would hear it. And he would see the wind blowing on this tree, which had branch that had holes in it. And one time he saw a woodpecker on there that flew away, and then the woodpecker came into his dream, and told him that he should go up there and take that branch and he would show him how to play it. And then he could communicate with the girls. So, that is the legend of the courting flute.

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