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We also want you to see the Journey of the Flute so you can get a feel for the process. If you want to follow the history of your bamboo flute check out: The Story of your Flute

We make and sell many handmade bamboo wind instruments like Oriental flutes, Native American Style flutes, Panpipes, Pan flutes, Pennywhistles and the Bamboo Sax. Please take your time, browse through my flute shop... read a few articles about flutes, like the History of the flute and the Parable of the flutemaker... and enjoy your visit. If you would like something from our SECURE shopping cart, don't let me stop you!

When you buy a flute from us, I would also like you to know that you will be given an opportunity to give a $5 donation to help build a home for kids that were rescued from a garbage dump in Nicaragua. With this effort you will be changing a life. You can see the progress of the construction at www.flutemakerMinistries.org. Profound thanks!

After 40 years of flutemaking, I have had the privilege of recording 5 Cds. You can hear a sample of my Bamboo music here.

Our Bamboo flutes come in major, minor, pentatonic and exotic scales.

There are 3 basic bamboo instrument styles or finishes. Natural, Dark and Carved and the Starry Night. And yet there is much more!

I make side blown flutes and end blown flutes. Concert tuned in A440 for professionals and less expensive, non concert flutes for the passionate flute novice.

On the site you will be able to hear and see them all.  more here
If you want to relax and be creative I recommend the deep Oriental flute, The Kiowa Love Flute is soulful and prayerful and easy to blow. The Andean sounds are found in the Quena and the Andean Pan Pipes. I recommend the Irish Penny Whistle in D and the Low Irish Flute in D for Celtic, Irish music. We make minor scale flutes that is more renaissance.

Some of our flutes are end blown with a V shaped notch and some side blown. Some have fipples like a Tin Whistle or Recorder.

Our Exotic flutes and exotic scales include the Arabian Flute, Oriental flute with the Japanese Shaquhachi tuning,
the Arabian Flute, the Egyptian flute, the Poet's flute and the Meditation Flute.

We have a Kid's section called the Kid's Corner with bird whistles, bird flutes and Kid's bamboo flutes in Major and Minor scales.

Also great for the beginner and the well trained performer, is the Irish Penny Whistle. It was the penny whistle that played the themes in Braveheart, Titanic and Lord of the Rings.  The Penny Whistle came over to America on the early ships from Europe. The next great Penny Whistle invasion was the River Dance. We make wood and bamboo penny whistles the wood are in the keys of C and D and the concert tuned Bamboo Whistles are in the keys of A and Bb.

I also believe that we should all be doing something to help out somewhere, and invite you to see out missionary flute page. The Kung Fu Flute, The Cascabel Set, the Cascabel flutes, the Ice age flute, the Stone age flute and the fossil stands.

I have been making Bamboo Saxophones for 25 years. They are so cool and come in Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone. Some come out professionally tuned in the keys of D, Bb, G and F. more here

Our Pan Pipes are in Major and Pentatonic scales. The Pan Flute in the Major scale is good to copy tunes. The Pan Pipe in the Pentatonic scale is fun, easy and creative, the Karate Kid sound.

My How To Video and DVD is a great tool to get you going. Some folks get "Bamboo Sax 101 and the Art of Bamboo Flute Playing" to decide which flute or sax they might want. With three and a half decades of flute making and playing I am pleased to share my secrets on bamboo instruments with everyone. Follow along on a sub tropical bamboo harvest and visit the flute makers' shop. Enjoy the zany spiel and the story of my beginnings. This video covers the fundamentals to enhance your enjoyment of these bamboo instruments.

After tooting for so long, I was able to compose 5 CD's of my bamboo flute music.  Three are presently available. It is World Music, using 15 bamboo flutes and bamboo saxes. Nice mood music.

My flute journey began when I gave away my best flute to a beggar. Right after that God gave me a Flutemaking career. more here

I have had the joy of making Bamboo Flutes for 39 years and have handmade over 150,000 wind instruments. It has been an adventure making bamboo flutes in Mexico, Guatemala, Argentina, Brazil, Hawaii, Costa Rica and Fiji.

I settled in Florida partially due to the great long bamboo for well tuned flutes. And because someone had turned me on to a cold cabin in snowy Woodstock, New York. They had told me to make a fire in the Wood Stove, but I was a hippie from New York City who had just returned from traveling 2 1/2 years in Latin America and could not figure out how someone could make a fire in a "wood" stove. If the stove was wood it would burn the cabin down. It was a painfully cold night. So I went to South Florida to thaw out. It not only reminded me of warm Brazil but I found great bamboo for flutes and became a Floridian.

After 30 years of flutemaking alone, Leonardo Aguirre from Argentina became my apprentice, 11 years later he is now my associate. An incredible Master Carver who is now sought after nationally. Author of the Carved Oriental, Egyptian, Meditation flute and The Carved Kiowa with ancient Pottery. Collector's Flute Carving

In my flutemaking career I have had the privilege to play my flutes for the President of Fiji, play on national and international television broadcasts and in churches and prisons around the world.

Thanks for coming into my Bamboo Flute world, you are about to embark on a musical journey. There are links to our bamboo flutes, exotic wood penny whistles, bamboo saxes and pan pipes above and to the left and in this text.

I thank God for making bamboo hollow!
Without that, I am a ruined man.
Hope we can help! Erik the flutemaker.

Erik lives in Davie, Florida  with his lovely bride; he has five neat children.  His bamboo instruments are playing on six continents and his music has been heard on radio stations in Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Aruba, and Fiji. Erik is also an independent missionary to Latin America, a story teller, ventriloquist, actor and historian.