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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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 Flutes go way back. You can find in Genisis 4:21 that Jubal was the father of the harp and the pipe (Ugab) translated at times as a shepherd's flute.
Above you will find our flute buttons.
About our Bamboo Flutes
You will see that our flutes and Bamboo Saxes are finished in different styles: Natural, Starry Night and Dark and Carved. Take a glance at the picture below, and if you would like something, let me know which one durning checkout..
In The Village you will find some neat articles:
History of the Flute
The Story of the Flutemaker
From The Flutemakers Heart, my testamony
The Parable of the Flutemaker
Story of the Month from my up-coming book. Coming soon!
Dragon Skin Style
The secret to flute playing is not to try hard. But to relax into it. The video has so many secrets to glean from.
When we try too hard we end up becoming masters of repeated mistakes. Go to the flute when it beckons you to come. It will be more of a joyful adventure and not a practice session.
Start with working on blowing across the mouthpiece and forget the fingers for a bit. Don't pucker it, makes you dizzy. Grin and spit watermelon seeds.
Fingering: Remember to use the pads and don't forget left hand knuckle pressing flute towards you. See video.
Have fun! Sincerely, the flutemaker.
There are different ways to blow a flute.
The easiest way is to just blow into a mouthpiece, known as a fipple, like the Pennywhistle, which is good to copy tunes and the Kiowa Love flute, which is nice to mellow out with and create your own tunes.
The Side Blown flutes, come in Major, Minor, Oriental, Egyptian and Arabian, here you have to press the flute against a soft relaxed grin and spit watermelon seeds across the blow hole to get sound.
The hardest of our flutes to master would be the V shaped End Blown flutes like the Oriental Shaquhachi, the Jiahu Crane flute and the Andean Quena (also known as the Kena). Here you lift the flute upwards against the lower relaxed lip and tilt the flute forward and back, keeping a bit of pressure upwards. When you hear the sound you can stop tilting. But always keep pressure up. You blow like the side flute, smiling and spitting out watermelon seeds.
See The Journey of your flute
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Flute Care
To care for flutes: Remember! "A flute on the floor is a flute no more"
No hot dash boards in the summer,
No ski trips in the winter.
No walking in the snow playing it;
Never lay it on a heater when you come in from the cold.
If you need a sweater it wants to be in it's flute bag.
If you don't have a flute bag, make one or order one.
I oil with Mineral oil. Others use walnut, linseed.
Oil on the outside when you want it to shine.
As often as you wish, dry with napkin.
You can oil inside too. Make a hole in a dowel.
Tie a tiny piece of cloth through it. Oil every 4-6 months. |
So...Enjoy A Bamboo Flute today!
Traveling in Mexico when I was 18, my heart was touched by a begger without legs. Hoping his life would be richer. I gave him my best flute At that moment it seemed like God might have said, "Watch what I can do". A few days later I became a flutemaker
and have since made over 100,000 flutes. I am reminded by this verse that still speaks to us through the corridors of time... Cast your bread upon the waters and in many days it shall return.
Ecclesiastes 11:1
I inivite you to read The Rest of the Story found in articles
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