Okay, I'm with you on wall thickness. However, wouldn't wood species affect sound quality? With all this discussion on hole wall height brings me to this...
... Hello Ron, It ain't much harder than buying the wood from Home Depot, but it is a lot more fun. Drying the wood is the trick. There's a book out called...
Hey Ron, I use a LOT of Cedar for flutes and most of it I harvest myself. Cedar has a great tendency to crack if it's not seasoned correctly. If your going...
Here is the rough synopsis of the wood lecture from one of the Echoes events. The harder the wood...the smaller the flute. The softer the wood, the larger the...
I deal with "bright" when playing the didj. Stands to reason this would pertain to flutes as well, but here goes... If you want to brighten a flute. SEAL IT...
Thanks Dusty, I didn't get to that lecture and have wished I did ever since. I have been trying to use Cherry to make a low C or B but they have not had the...
Hello Ron, The red cedar here in west Tn. is perfect for making flutes. The ones to harvest are standing dead or dead that have fallen. I like to cut them to...
Hi hd, To make a hard wood less bright, rough up the inner surface of the bore with some coarse grit sand paper. It's the smoothness on the micro- level that...
On the other hand, I found the article here worth a smile, if not a LOL: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/marl/Coltman/documents/Coltman-1.06.pdf Don ... Echoes ... ...
LOL! Let me check with the map about how close to Boise I am. Don't want to be off by too many miles. 2,435.5 miles! I think that is a bit far to get...
Okay, thanks for the invite! I had given Joel a copy of Littleleaf's lastest CD and found out that he ( Joel) was listed in the jacket notes as a flutemaker to...
Hi Dale, I've made real train whistles for steam train resorations, and I make whistles for model railroad fans, who like the steam sound while watching the HO...
Hey Everyone : I thought I would let you all know of a potential problem . I have had my credidt card number stolen by some sorry piece of trash that needs to...
NEVER submit any information that was requested in an email. They are all spam, every last one. No company requests updated information in this way. I just...
Hey Steve; Lesson learned.I knew better but got stupid for a minute . NEVER again. Burt ... <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nativeflutewoodworking>" ... ...
It happens to all of us. Luckily, most of the time, it doesn't cost us money. Hopefully, your experience will prevent it from happening to one of our other...
Sorry to hear about this!! I'd contact the credit card company explain things, cancel the card number and have them issue you a new one. I would also contact...
OK, Good on the train wihstles. I saw a plan somewhere on the Internet for a wood train whistle to be blown by person. I'm not sure I remember exactly, but...
The two major gurus in flute acoustics, Benade and Nederveen, both conclude the same thing as Don's article: the material from which the flute is made has...
Hi Fellas, I found it interesting that all the flutes used the same plastic (delrin) material for the mouthpiece (embouchure, I assume.) I wonder if the same...
This is for those of you in the Western Washington area (north of Seattle) Hosted by Cedartree Native flute circles. If your looking for hand made, native made...
Thanks, I appreciate all the input on the issue of the stock used to make a NAF. Being new to this art, I'm trying to learn how to balance the many variables...
A updatae on ebay? It was on the news a few weeks ago here. Dang, that stinks. Some one stole mine last Dec. But the bank seen a charge on there they...
Both ebony and walnut do like like moisture, so seal them up well. Walnut has a wonderful tone. Ebony mills to an extremely smooth surface and sands easily so...
"Burnt" Levitt, NEVER give out info like that when prompted on the web unless you are on a site and buying something and it is a secure site.(the location bar...
A friend of mine who makes transverse flutes here in Maryland showed me a silver flute for which he had made three different mouthpieces.. gold, silver, and...
Dusty, Where is that wood joint you speak of? I live not too far away in Southern Maryland, and it's hard to find good material I can pick up and look at...
I've seen the same kind of thing on Ebay where they have these wonderful pictures of some item and a bunch of attractive wording like "lowest price anywhere,...
... Dusty,et al., I agree that it's satisfying to feel a flute vibrating in your fingertips. The notion that this must be contributing at some level to sound...
