Flute


 * For the item in The Legend of Zelda or Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, see Whistle

The Flute is an item from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. This blue musical instrument plays a distinct melody that can summon a bird that transports the user to certain areas of Hyrule.

The design of the flute is very similar to the iconic Ocarina of Time from later games in the series, and may well have served as inspiration for said item.

History
The Flute was once owned by a boy from Kakariko Village who was warped to the Dark World and transformed into a tree. Link discovers the tree in the Dark World, and it tells him to find his Flute, that was buried near the stump in the Haunted Grove in the Light World. To aid him in this endeavour, it gives Link a Shovel.

Link unearths the Flute in the northwest corner of Haunted Grove and brings it back to the Dark World, where he plays it for the boy, who is soothed by the music and subsequently transforms further into an inanimate tree. Link can then play the melody of the Flute for the Weather Vane in Kakariko Village. The statue shatters, revealing the flying bird inside. The bird transports Link to certain areas of the Light World when the Flute is played again.

Near the end of his quest, Link uses the Flute to call the bird, who took him to the Pyramid of Power to take on Ganon. This is the only time that the Flute has any effect in the Dark World.

1. Death Mountain
Directly outside the Old Man's cave on Death Mountain.

2. Magic Shop
Directly outside the Magic Shop north of the Eastern Palace.

3. Kakariko Village
In the center square, where the aforementioned Weather Vane was once located.

4. Link's House
Directly outside of Link's House, south of Hyrule Castle.

5. Eastern Palace
Directly outside the entrance to the Eastern Palace

6. Desert of Mystery
Southwestern corner of the Desert of Mystery. Link must, at one point, utilize this warp point to enter Misery Mire.

7. Swamp Ruins
Directly outside the Swamp Ruins, in mid-southern Hyrule.

8. Lake Hylia
On the southern peninsula near Lake Hylia.

9. Death Mountain
In the north-western part of Death Mountain. This warp point can only be accessed after Link has entered the area once.