Dan, are you from the Mille Lac? I was living just off Millica Hinckley tribal lands in St Croix forest until 3 years ago. Miss the forest. John A Dan Lybarger...
Is anyone going to the Lac du Flambeau Pow Wow this weekend???? They have a wonderful Ojibwe museum there...the whole area is rich in the native culture....
Is that the Pow Wow that is in or near Wis.? Walk with God Marie ... From: Nancy Patterson To: NAFMusic@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 2:41...
I use to stop in when it was just a short drive from the St Croix forest where I lived. A little far at the moment. Probably just stop in at the Rendezvous in...
No I am in So. Cal. But my husband went on Vacation this week so he could go to that Pow Wow with a friend of ours that just moved up there. They are...
Yes Marie...it is in Northern Wisconsin. _____ From: NAFMusic@yahoogroups.com [mailto:NAFMusic@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Marie Clay Sent: Friday, September...
Only reason I'm not going up there this weekend myself is the distance. I use to be only 45 minutes-hour drive....now I am about 300 miles & 5 hours South of...
I live about 2 hours south of the reservation....near Crivitz WI. I used to live near Milwaukee...and used to go to Indian Summer all the time. I'll report...
That would be GREAT Marie...I haven't found another flute player up here at all! I live about 1.5 hours from Green Bay....so I'm kinda in no man's land up...
... John, My heritage is from the Red Lake Band up in the International Falls Area. My father was born there. I grew up in Illinois but spent a lot of summers...
My first flute was reed.The one I have now is pvc and I got it because I spend a lot of time on the water, and I can take it with me and not worry about it...
Hi all, In the long thread discussing watering out, there was a suggestion to use tung oil. Please don't. Tung oil makes an excellent finish on flutes. But...
Maybe I will go next time Walk with God Marie ... From: John Allen To: NAFMusic@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 5:45 PM Subject: Re:...
Hello, I have just learned to play the NAF while here in Iraq. It gives me alot of calming peace in this dump. I have learned alot with books ordered from...
I joined this group several weeks ago, as I was asked to play NAF for a wedding and wanted advice as to what to play. Some of the advice, given by several, was...
After one recent event that I played for, a man asked me about how to obtain a flute. I was lucky, in that my then wife talked to Coyote Oldman himself and...
... Dan, You are so right on this. The flute will speak to you by the way it fits in your hand and how it speaks to your soul when you share your breath with...
The right flute only makes itself known when holding & playing it really. There may be a special flute that someone doesn't want others to play....but it...
Greetings! I lucked out. I have two sweet little flutes that I found on eBay, and they both have wonderful songs to share. Though I have to admit one was a bit...
... First of all, thank you for serving. For reading tab, I like John Vames' books best. I'm not aware of the Pink Floyd song, but I recently heard Mark...
Tough topic. First, I wonder how much one can learn in a few minutes of trying out a flute at a powwow or show? I say that, because like Cyn, I have two flutes...
Plastic, while a viable medium, in my humble opinion does not convey the richness and resonance that one finds in a flute made from wood. While plastic is a...
you are right on Dan! You don,t really make contact with the Spirit of the flute until you play. But once you make that bond, protect your sacred bond as you...
Easy one here. Place one finger over the true sound hole and blow hard. Then shake out the excess water. Totsuwa ... that ... things ... builds ... that ... ...
I have a fairly high-stress job due to a supervisor who doesn't know how to do my job trying to tell me how to do it and demanding to know why things are not...
Mike, I also have a flute made by W.E.! I need one that has a modern tuning in G so am going to place my "skittish little colt" up for auction since I could...
Greetings fellow warrior, I remember when "wish you were here" first came out I would get a start with it just humming it out and using flute hole tabs so you...