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The Easy Flutes include: The Kiowa Love Flute Style
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*Bamboo Trivia
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*From The Flutemakers Heart, (my testimony)
*Parable of the Flutemaker.

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Erik teaches the thrill of making side blown bamboo flutes. Great for your collection, gifts or making a living. Learn to make Majors, Minors and Exotic Scales. Learn how to harvest and cure bamboo. Learn how to make and use the tools of the trade. Learn to fire treat and carve your flutes,and how to make the Starry Night finish. Price list of Flutemaking Bamboo included. The Dvd is the end product of 38 years of experience. Here I give away my knowlege and secrets. All my side blown flutes are available as masters that you may reproduce. By visiting my website you will see, hear and gain tips on playing my side blown flutes. Also available from us is clean and cured bamboo to make your flutes. I'm also providing Flutemaking tools like: Burning Irons, Cleaning Brushes and a Marking Board.

Someone once said that there are a thousand ways to wash dishes. I do not teach mathamatical flute equations but how to make great flutes from a good master flute.This Dvd will get you there.

Flutemaking Tools:

Before buying your irons please consider which set is best for you.

5 Metal Irons for Novice:
The mild steel iron is recommended for low volume production.
Erodes after continued usage, requires filing the tip or cleaning with a wire wheel in order to heat up quickly.

The Big Iron is good for the mounthpiece of a Large Oriental or Large Poet's Flute

5 Stainless Steel Irons:
Best for flutemaking:
Heats quicker, lasts longer and is more pleasent to use.
The stong metal does not chip away, still requires a bit of filing before using.
This is the way to go if it's in your budget.
High Quality Stainless Steel.

Flute Brush (to clean and oil)

Marking Board

Bamboo Blanks
A flute blank is a piece of cured, clean bamboo to make a flute.
For Side Blown, Majors, Minors, and Exotic Scales

What You Are Saying:

Hi Erik,
I successfully made more then 35 flutes! Without your flutemaking DVD I would have had no chance... That was really a great investment. I set up my production at home - even despite not having a proper workshop - and that works out well. Thank you for bringing this fantastic art of playing and making flutes into my life. I'm very sure that without finding your website and watching the great films you made I would have never started this great adventure.
God bless you my friend, Andre Stellmacher (writing from Belgium...) August 02, 2011

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Hello Erik,
This is the first bamboo flute I made last night. Thank you for the easy and comprehensive instruction on the DVD.  I had lots of fun with my son (master inside cleaner and sander) and the flute sounds good too. It's going to be a gift for my acupuncture teacher. With best wishes.
Luis Ballester in Edmonton, Canada September 23, 2011

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Dear Erik,
Thank you for sending me my delivery in flute-light-speed! I got the flute making dvd and the iron tools last week. The bamboo blank for the E-Major is absolut beautifull to. My flute journey, so to say, starts, as I found your page years ago. I never had thought to find so beautifull flutes. And now I have started to make the first few humbled flutes in
my life.
O wow, what can I say. I can't stop it anymore. My first and last thought every day is, thinking on flute making. Everywhere I see bamboo. If it is a bamboo table for example I think, you would sound better as a flute!
Forgive me, I am realy mad with that. Your dvd is such a valuable and wonderfull tool. I feel gratitude to have the chance to learn from you, every time I watch it. The way you explain and show the process, is so clear and nice, that it is a great pleasure. So this dvd has taken me by my hand, to lead me through the dream of flute making. I will practice it constantly in the hope, to wake up one day as a a humbled flutemaker.
Thank you for giving people the chance, to make the world sound (and look) nicer.
God bless you, from the bottom of my heart
Jürgen from Germany June 15, 2011

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Hello Erik,
 I want to thank you so much for putting the Flutemaking Dvd together. I enjoyed the presentation, subject and wealth of knowledge. Your DVD was very instructive.  
Regards, Armando in Miami September 2009

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Greetings Erik
The flute making DVD was very informational as I have dabbled with making bamboo flutes in the past with no clear indication of what the end result should be. Now with the helpful guide and armed with truly professional flutes with which to guage my efforts, I can dust off my tools and begin my hobby anew with fresh insights thanks to yours truly.
Thank you so much for your wonderful instruments and professionalism!
Best regards, Rick Eller in Manteo - NC March, 2009

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Erik,
I got your (Flutemaking 101) dvd for Christmas! It is so good! I have learned a lot from it!
We have already made several flutes!! It really helps a lot and I enjoy watching it! 
Thanks so much for all you do!
Jay Martin in  Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Jan. 2009

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Hi Erik Just wanted to congratulate and thank you for your wonderful production of the bamboo flute making 101 dvd. This is truly an excellent dvd to own and I have already learned from it. I will watch it again and again. I shared it last evening with my neighbor here in France (who does not speak english - and he couldn't stop watching - and he is not even a flute maker!) Ron in France, Nov. 2008

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Erik, I enjoyed your Dvd, “How to make flutes”. 
It is a wealth of information.  I live near Waxahachie, Texas and there is plenty of Bamboo.
Thus, far I have made a concert G, and it is playing beautifully.
 I will be making more, and will definitely be getting back with you to order some other flutes to use as patterns.
Using yours as patterns beats all the brain work that goes into making one from scratch.
Without your video, I could not have had the level of success I had.  
I will be making these for fun and worship, and will be giving these to children in our church.
Rex Hudson in Texas Dec 30th 2008