f you are reading this then why don't you leave a greeting or ask any questions you would like? This is your space, too, so don't be shy. You may need to go to...
here are several types of glues that work differently on different woods. "Click" on reply and put in your 2 cents about what type of glue does/doesn't work ...
good place to start is from instructions in a book by a Ben Hunt called "Native Indian Survival Skills" or something close to that. Perhaps American Indian...
nother good resource (that is still in print) are the books from Lew Paxton Price. I'd pretty much consider him the 'god' of native flute making physics. He ...
nother good resource (that is still in print) are the books from Lew Paxton Price. I'd pretty much consider him the 'god' of native flute making physics. He ...
nother good resource (that is still in print) are the books from Lew Paxton Price. I'd pretty much consider him the 'god' of native flute making physics. He ...
nother good resource (that is still in print) are the books from Lew Paxton Price. I'd pretty much consider him the 'god' of native flute making physics. He ...
hat luck as anyone had with the instructions on that page? <br><br>I saw in that article that they recommend an angle of 71 degrees. That seems rather steep ...
fter a week of "bad" luck with my van I'm back for a while. Wings around that sound hole will change sound. Lew Price uses a bird with no wings that hangs over...
hysics says 30 degrees is good but I don't ever measure it. I also make that hole after the pieces are glued back together. My little flat files file an ...
ooked at a the angle on a recorder and it looks like 30. But the angle on your flutes looks more like 40 plus. Tried 42 for most of the day [and night]. Had a...
hen nothing else worked, started sawing sections off end of flute. Of course, this screwed up the tuning I had done, but after a 5 inch section was taken off,...
lamp the flute when the outside is still square and the inside is routed. I use about 16 clamps and clamp on the edge so the pressure goes directly through the...
do all of this by sight and don't measure anything. An angle of somewhere between 30 and 40 degrees must work but I'm limited by the tools. I have made a few...
he thinner the wall , the smaller the fingers holes need to be. Contouring for the fingers will tune that note higher by making the wall thinner at that finger...
he thinner the wall , the smaller the fingers holes need to be. Contouring for the fingers will tune that note higher by making the wall thinner at that finger...
ick, many things can lead to this result so you have to do some experiments to figure out why. A glue seam that has a slight opening is one reason. This is ...
hat type of finish is best for the interior of a Native American Flute? I like a satiny finish for the exterior, but I was wondering if a harder finish might...
ee, I suppose that the inside needs to be as smooth as possible to produce a clean tone. The look of the finish isn't as important as the smoothness of the...
've been working on a spreadsheet to calculate hole placement based on Lew Paxton Price's formulas. Has anyone been successful using these calculations or his...
ay, How was this done in the 10,000 years prior to Lew? Lew has the mind of a genius and his calculations are correct but very difficult for me, a sub-genius,...
hanks Dusty. I suspected I would get a similar response, but I didn't expect the first one to come from you. I somehow expected your methods to be of a ...
am a beginning maker. I've made two flutes so far, one of aromatic cedar and one of red cedar. I used mineral oil on the interior, and beeswax on the outside....
his muted sound may be due to other factors. Is the flue shallow or deep? Is the flue in the bird or the flute body? Is the bird perfectly tight and flat ...
use a Korg electronic tuner set to 440 Megahertz for the note A. The weather will change a tone or sharpen or flaten a tone. It took me a long time to realize...
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