I was in Colorado Springs last week and got the opportunity to see and play some Odell Borg Flutes that were in a shop there. Wow, what a sound! Several of the...
While I was in Colorado Springs I saw several artist carving what looked like a deep reddish purple cedar. Is that Western red Cedar? If so, does anyone know...
Here's a boring suggestion for Dennis,<br><br>If your'e starting with square 2X2 stock and want to drill the barrel without the bit shooting out the side- try ...
Western Red Cedar----<br><br>it has slightly darker rings and summerwood than a wood such as fir, with a trace of red but more brown. Definitely not purple....
I've been trying to figure out how to exchange WAV files of flute sounds. I have a 1.2M wav file of a drone flute (picture posted in the photos here), no...
Yahoo pager has voice conferencing, but that is not a file. ICQ has voice messaging, which may act as a file, and it is good for sending files, but the ...
I have a Geocities account that is essentially empty, I only use it for ebay photos. I can house maybe 7 MB worth of wavs there for people, leave them up for a...
I made a center-of-bit mark on my router fence as Bob Nance did in his photos, but I'm getting good results by using masking tape strips on both sides of the ...
The only "mark" I use is knowing where the center of the bit is located. I long ago tossed off the plastic "guard" on the router since it was getting in the ...
The artists in question had cut the wood right in the vicinty of Colorado Springs right off the side off the mountain if you will. I assumed it was cedar but...
I saw on an Australian flute site that they made a shakuhachi with interchangeable shakuhachi and block flute mouthpieces. <br><br>Does anyone know what the...
Don,<br><br>Monty Levenson makes some of the finest Shakuhachi in the world. I'm sure he'd be happy to answer questions about tuning. I 'think' it's similar to...
To be honest, I've only seen commercial lumber <br>WRC. Cedar tends to have a stringy bark, though. From your description aromatic cedar came to mind, but that...
I just spent a frustrating hour cutting and routing zebrawood.<br><br>The surface insists on flaking and tearing, despite sharp new blade and router bit. It...
Purpleheart is a tropical hardwood found in central and south america. It is super hard and not a "carving" wood. It sinks in water, but inspite of that, I saw...
I have a bamboo flute with a native tuning but it has four holes on the front and a thumb hole on the back. It's tuned to D. The guy I bought it from also had...
Havasupi,<br><br>Thanks for letting me know. Do you know where I can get some juniper? While I was there I went to several lumber stores and never saw...
The only place I have ever seen Juniper for sale has been in the form of fence posts. If you ever travel here in the west, especialy through Colorado, Utah,...
A day late. I just bought a stick of the stuff yesterday, quarter sawn, 1x2, very straight line pattern and expensive. Any other hints for working it...
Still haven't finished tuning a drone flute, due to problems with sound hole area. Tried to carve an air channel into the flute, unsuccessfully due to hardness...
I've made a few simple birds out of it. Maybe the absorption will make it function as well as cypress, to wick out moisture, or maybe it would swell/deform and...
I saw a drone flute that Odell Borg had done in Colorado. Instead of the usual side by side method you normally see, his was a inverted V shape. It was two ...
To tune the drone flutes, remember that once the sound holes are completed, if the two flutes are in perfect tune to each other, there will be NO phasing when ...
The one drone I have working so far (purchased, not my own making) readily makes slight tuning changes with "twisting" the bird--gets to ZERO "wahs". <br><br>I...
On the walls of the Egyptian Pyramids are some glyphs known as the "two-tone flute player" depicting a fellow playing two flutes of different lengths. Two ...
I am an avid mandolin player and there is a site called the mandolin cafe where players post music they have written in tab for other people to download. I go ...
Not really either.<br><br>If one flute (or one bore of two-bore flute) is tuned to A 440, and one to 441 Hz, and both are played neutrally (no effort to keep...
