... would like when I play. the flute just has a mind of it's own. I compliment it, pray to it, threaten and try to scare it but nothing helps. I give up...
bill, the flutemaker is offering to pair up indivuals of like experience for the Dec flute exchange. For those unfamiliar with this , he pairs up like talents...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqEvpWapNb8 Keith: Not everything went as planned, but the Terlingua school band director got his flutes, and he agreed to make...
Hello All, I am doing my first tunings on three flutes I made. I am using burn rods for the holes. I first did the fundelmental note three cents sharp and...
Is the fundamental also flat? If so, you can sand a little off the end to make it sharper. This will likely make the finger holes a little more flat, so retune...
I've made about 100 flutes using NAFlutomat for bores between 3/4" (up to Bb) and 1_1/8" (down to C#). In all cases, I used the program to determine the...
Re: flat tuning on flute Patrick, could the temperature today in your workplace be different than yesterday? -ScottM ... using burn rods for the ... burned...
Thanks guys, I did check the room temp. and turned it up. ÊAll your suggestions really helped. I think I need to fine tune the flue and ramps a litle better I...
Diatonic tuning is the way the ancestors tuned their instruments (ie; a flute tuned to its self) Pentatonic is the norm for "concert tuned" flutes and what...
A pentatonic flute, played basically, thus playing only the notes of this scale, will give you always good melodies. The pentatonic scale, with harmonically...
I would try adjusting the" bird" into a slightly different position or better allignment, and see if that clears up its tone, Larry. I had to learn to do...
No! Diatonic refers to the western DO RE MI FA SOL LA TI scale. It does *not* have the meaning of "a flute tuned to its self", nor does it mean "the way the...
... Please check your definitions. pentatonic scale is 5 notes per octave, diatonic scale is 7 notes per octave and chromatic scale is all whole and half...
now now boys lets keep it nice and friendly!!!!!!!!!!!!! now read this!!! CREATORS FIRST INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE AND PLAY A NAF Hi, This is what I was...
I believe recording artists will choose the flute best to serve what they are doing musically. Mary Youngblood for example uses both the common modern NAF (so...
THE FIRST GUY TO MAKE A FLUTE HAD NO CONCEPT OF PENTATONIC, DIATONIC OR CHROMATIC HE SIMPLY MADE THE THING PLAY THE NOTES HE LIKED YA ALL SEEM TO FORGET WHERE...
then I must be like that first man! I am just a dummy beginner I have made two low C flutes that both play very well but they both sound different I have just...
Greetings, I could hear the echo from the long pause since the last post so I thought I would throw out another question I have been thinking about. Besides...
Steve Lundh: To each his own. http://pan-flute.com/home.html Brad White makes the best pan flutes. The flutes are expensive, but they play. Problem is, you...
Hi Don, Actually I have seen Brad Whites site which had some good information but I appreciate the lead anyway. I have made about 50+ wood flutes over the last...
I have made ceramic ocarinas and chinese xun and bamboo ocarinas. I made a couple of pan flutes but not my gig for making or playing. I have dabbled...
Let's see if this works better and not all jumbled up: Steve My woodworking experience goes from trying to desperately tune my first NAF style flute, with...
As a person who managed to get a" D" in woodworking in college, as I had become obsessed with getting dovetailed joints in the display case that I was...
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