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Introduction to Bamboo Flutes

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Kids Major, Small Major, Calypso Flute, Quena, Brazilian Major , Irish Flute

Concert Tuned Flutes include: Keys of: A, Bb, C, D (High - Low), E, F, G

Native American Style:
include: Inspired Kiowa, Inspired Kiowa Pottery, Anasazi, Easy Anasazi, Double Kiowa

The Easy Flutes include: The Kiowa Love Flute Style
The Penny Whistle

Exotic Scales include: Minor flutes, Arabian, Egyptian, Meditation, Chinese, Native American Style, Double flutes.

Oriental Flutes include: Japanese - Shakuhachi
Chinese - Jihau Crane Flute

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Bamboo Saxes include: Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone

Pan Pipes include: Major,
Andean

Kid's Corner

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Sax Pak, Exotic Set, Collector's Edition, Master carved Oriental Flute, Inspired Kiowa Love Flute with Pottery.

Other Products / Accessories include: How to Dvd, CD's, Flutemaking Dvd, Flute Cases, Flute Bags, Sax bags, Reeds/ Reed Cases, Bamboo Pen Holders

Painted Flutes

In the Flutemaker's Village we include:
Where's Erik
Letters from Customers
International Photos

Songs for the Bamboo Sax
Songs for the Pennywhistle

In The Village you will find some neat articles:

*Bamboo Trivia
*History of the flutes.
*The Story of Erik the Flutemaker.
*From The Flutemakers Heart, (my testimony)
*Parable of the Flutemaker.

Questions for the Flutemaker

How to repair your cracked flute

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Bamboo Trivia

Erik the flutemaker's Bamboo Plantation in Davie, Florida

Bamboo is the largest of the grasses, there are between 1250 and 1600 species of bamboo, 64 percent of which are native to Southeast Asia . Thirty-three percent grows in Latin America, and the rest in Africa and Oceania . In North America there are only three native species of bamboo as opposed to the 440 species native to Latin America .

One species of bamboo in Japan has been known to grow over four feet in 24 hours. The Guadua species from Brazil can produce 60,000 bamboo poles per 2 1/2 acres. India is one of the richest countries in bamboo population with about 136 species. In South America there is a bamboo in a rainforest mountain base where the knots are 10 feet apart with only 2 knots in the pole. On top of that mountain there is a tiny bamboo perhaps 5 inches high.

There are at least 1500 recorded uses of bamboo.One fourth of the world’s population relies on bamboo for many of the objects used in daily life. Over 600 million people around the world generate income from bamboo.Hundreds of millions of people in the world live in bamboo houses.

Bamboo pumps oxygen into the air faster than trees. A grove at Hiroshima in 1945 at ground zero survived the atomic blast and, within days, sent up new shoots. The Chinese have used the hollow stems of bamboo to make flutes since before the Stone Age. The Australian aboriginals use them to make droning pipes called didgeridoos. Bamboo has long been used to make paper. The Bamboo Annals, written on bamboo, are the oldest written Chinese records, dating from the 8th century BC.

Alexander Graham Bell used a sharpened bamboo sliver as his first phonograph needle. These were patented on November 12, 1907 by Fred D. Hall of the B & H Fibre Company in Chicago . You could buy 1000 needles for $4. In 1880 Edison used carbonized bamboo to light his light bulb after perhaps 1000 failed experiments

Bamboo grows most from 10 am to 3 pm during the day. The growth length is higher in humid air than in dry air, and at high temperature than at low temperature.Most of the plants of a species flower at about the same time around the world. This blossoming occurs at 10-145 year cycles, depending on the species. after the flowering occurs the bamboo dies off and the seed is only viable for six months

This could be the largest bamboo in the world found in china

"If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life" But if you give a man a bamboo plant he can make fishing rods, fish traps, utensils and a house to lay his head after a fine fish dinner.