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Introduction to Bamboo Flutes

The Journey of Your Flute

Major Flutes include:
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

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

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

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

Missionary Flutes

Bamboo Saxes include: Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone

Pan Pipes include: Major,
Andean

Kid's Corner

Specials include:
Sax Pak, Clarinet Pak, Exotic Set, Collector's Edition, Master carved Oriental Flute, Kiowa Love Flute with Pottery

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

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

Songs for the Bamboo Sax
Songs for the Pennywhistle

Articles include:
My first flute.
New Times Article.
History of the flutes.
The Story of Erik the Flutemaker.
Parable of the Flutemaker.

Chapters from Erik's new book

Policy

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Articles

My First Flute

Up to this time I owned and loved a wooden flute that was made in India. The strong wood revealed a lovely grain. A brass ring hugged the end of it, looking like a prince from a far away land. More here

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New Times Interview:

When he's in the middle of a bamboo forest, Erik Sampson hears music.Today, though, Sampson isn't in the jungle. He's standing before a clump of bamboo rooted inside a nine-foot-square planter fashioned from logs, in a sunny part of the back yard of his ranch home on an acre of land in western Davie. Usually, he hooks a trailer to the back of his Ford Bronco and travels to Fort Pierce or Homestead to harvest bamboo on acres of land where it grows so thick that it creates green shadows. Today, he is reenacting the harvest for the benefit of New Times. More Here



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History of the flute

A four holed flute made from a femur bone of a bear was found in a cave in France. Flutes have been found in tombs in Egypt and depicted on their walls. Clay flutes and whistles have been dug up in the cornfields of the Mayan peoples of Guatemala. From Africa to Asia the flute has left its mark. Recently, flutes made from the wingbone of ancient cranes were discovered in China. Clay pan pipes in the Andes and double flutes seen on ancient Greek vases.
More here

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The True Story Of Erik The Flute Maker

Political activist, kidnapped for three years, lived with Indians, bitten by snake, slept in cave, chicken coops and jungles as he traveled North, Central and South America. Vegetarian for six years, delivered his first born, walked with a staff and white clothes seeking answers from the guru maze of eastern philosophies. More here

The Parable of the Flutemaker
A Spiritual Application of Flutemaking
Warning! This may impact your life and be a great blessing

I have been known to say, that the art of Bamboo Flutemaking boils down to where the holes should go and how big they should be. There is much more to flute making of course and it even has a wonderful spiritual message.Thus, dear reader, the Parable of the Flutemaker. More here