There are numerous pictures with Lord Krishna and His flute, just image-google with "krishna flute".
It must have ben about 1972 too, the time of my own Wander Jahre, when I picked up the picture below: Lord Krishna with His flute and the cowgirl Radha with her cow, a symbol for salvation and divine bliss.
![Image](http://www.flutesong.fsnet.co.uk/images/Krishna_flute.jpg)
The Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan wrote about the symbolism of Krishna's flute:
"Krishna is pictured in Hindu symbology with a crown of peacock's feathers, playing the flute. Krishna is the ideal of divine love, the God of love. And the divine love expresses itself by entering into man and filling his whole being. Therefore the flute is the human heart, and a heart which is made hollow will become a flute for the God of love to play upon. When the heart is not empty, in other words, when there is not scope in the heart, there is no place for love."
Read more on this lovely page: www.sufimovement.org/symbology.htm
Jalaluddin Rumi wrote:
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,
cut holes in it, and called it a human being.
Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony
of parting, never mentioning the skill
that gave it life as a flute.
and Mevlâna wrote:
Hearken to this Reed forlorn,
breathing even since ‘twas torn
from its rushy bed, a strain
of impassioned love and pain.
The secret of my song, though near,
none can see and none can hear.
Oh, for a friend to know the sign
and mingle all his soul with mine!
‘Tis the flame of love that fired me,
‘tis the wine of love inspired me.
Wouldst thou learn how lovers bleed,
hearken, hearken to the Reed!