How to Make Native American Style Five Hole Bamboo Flutes


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A blow by blow, fully illustrated manual on "How to make Native American Style Five Hole Bamboo Flutes" using a few basic tools and minimal wood working skills.If I can do it, then so can you. Follow these instructions, and the end result should be an instrument you are proud of, capable of making beautiful sounds and perhaps, like me, leading to a passion for creating a whole range of different flutes and even exploring how to make flutes from other cultures. The Japanese also have beautiful bamboo flutes..




How To Make Native American Style 5 hole Bamboo flutes


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Detailed instructions on how to make a "woodlands" style 5 hole bamboo flute, tuned to a pentatonic scale.




How to Make Your Own Bamboo Flutes


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Everything you need to know about making your own beautiful bamboo flutes. Models covered in the book are Side Blown Flute, Shakuhachi, Native American Flute and Bamboo Recorder. And now the Bamboo Sax. If you want to know how to Make Bamboo Flutes, then this is the Book. When I started to make bamboo flutes 30 years ago there was virtually no information on this amazing topic anywhere. By following the methods described in this E-Book you'll save a lot of time stuffing around, stabbing in the dark and wasted bamboo! You'll have an incredible head start that I did not have when I embarked on Bamboo Flute making.




The Art of Native American Flute Making


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The best way to learn to make Native American Flutes is to learn from someone who already makes them. This time honored tradition is how they have been made for the last 8000 years or so. This book leads the reader down the path of flute making which its creator had originally taken and with the experience of 28 years of work in the craft, he provides an edge for those wanting to learn how to make Native American Flutes. From beginning to end and with many types of flutes as well as materials to make them out of, this book teaches both advanced as well as the upcoming flute maker just starting the journey.




How to Make Native American Flutes


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This book will teach you how to make the Native American Flute ( 5 or 6 hole flute). Using a band-saw and table router. No turning lathe is needed. Power tools are used in this book, making the job much faster................. Contents 3 Introduction to the Native American Flute 4 Safety & Tools 5 Wood selection & Flute planning 6 Cutting the flute blank 7 Routing the flute blank 8 Routing Pictures 9 Gluing the flute 10 Tapering and Rounding the flute 11 Sanding 12 Making the air holes 13 Making the air split 14 Making the bird 16 Calculating and making the sound holes 19 Tuning the flute 20 Finishing the flute 21 5 Hole Flute tuning diagram 22 6 Hole Flute tuning diagram 23 Flute diagrams 27 Bird, Fetish and Air Split Pictures 28 More Flute Pictures 29 Flute Bird Adjustment 30 Flute Finger Hole Calculation Tables 1/2 " inside bore flutes 31 Flute Finger Hole Calculation Tables 3/4" inside bore flutes 32 Flute Finger Hole Calculation Tables 1" inside bore flutes 33 Flute Finger Hole Calculation Tables 1 1/8" inside bore flutes 34 Flute Finger Hole Calculation Tables 1 1/4" inside bore flutes 35 Flute Finger Hole Calculation Tables 1 1/2" inside bore flutes 36 Formula to calculate finger hole positions 37 Millimeters to Inches conversion table




Flute Magic, Third Edition


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This book contains 20 chapters addressing everything from the origin and design of the Native American flute to a method for learning to play the instrument and read its music. Together with the fingering exercises presented in eight lessons, a number of tunes are included for both the five and six-hole Native American flute. Old standards, indigenous music, and original compositions are presented, meeting the needs of beginning to advanced players. This useful and practical guide to the Native American flute is suitable for either individual or classroom instruction.




How to Make Native American Flutes


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This book will teach you how to make the Native American Flute ( 5 or 6 hole flute). Using a band-saw and table router. No turning lathe is needed.Power tools are used in this book, making the job much faster.Flute fundamentals: Air is blown into the mouth end of the flute, it travels under the bird, and is channeled to pass over the air split. As the air is being split, half is going over the air split (outside the flute), the other half going inside the flute. This produces a harmonic vibration of the air waves.The holes in the body of the flute allows the air going inside the flute to escape at the flute holes. The flute players fingers, controls the air escaping at the flute holes. A different sound (note) is heard as the air escapes the body of the flute, at each hole. The sound is different because the wave length is different at each hole. The shorter the wave length the higher the note (pitch). The longer the wave length the lower the note (pitch).Lots of detailed information and photos, and tables.




Songwriting Shortcuts for the Native American Flute


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Writing music can be a very rewarding and creative process, but sometimes it can be overwhelming - especially if you're new to this, or you've been told that you're not good at songwriting! When I was a kid, my piano teacher told my mom that I wasn't cut out for music. For years I listened to that false belief. Then my creativity was liberated when I started with the Native American flute. I didn't know anything about music, but I came up with my own way of writing music and capturing melodies... and it worked! That framework helped me write more than 200 songs. With this book, you'll learn how to capture those short melodies so that you can repeat what you just played, arrange your song so that you aren't mindlessly noodling, and connect your story so you have the confidence to share your music This is the secret sauce, and in this e-book, I'll show you the shortcuts to these exact tactics! Creative endeavors require good tools. That's why I've built a toolkit for you. You'll find capturing tactics, arrangement strategies, blank NAF TAB sheets, phrasing prompts and a story sheet as part of this book to help you maximize your songwriting experience. Note: This book does not address how to write the notes on that staff. Instead, we are focusing solely on finger diagrams for now. If you already read Nakai TAB you are welcome to use that feature. I will be creating a course for learning the Nakai TAB system in the future!




Making Native American Drone Flutes


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Contents 3 Introduction to the Native American Drone Flute 4 Safety & Tools 5 Wood selection & Flute planning 6 Cutting the flute blanks 7 Routing the flute blanks 8 Routing (continued) 9 Gluing the Drone Flute 10 Air holes 11 Rounding and Tapering 12 Sanding 13 Making the air splits 14 Fetish design 15 Finger holes 16 Flute end shaping 17 Other Types of Drone Flutes 18 Other Types of Drone Flutes 19 Finger Holes Positions 20 Finger Holes Diagram 21 Fetish Info 22 Finger Hole Info 23 Tips 24 Tuning 25 Finishing 26 5 Hole Flute tuning diagram 27 6 Hole Flute tuning diagram 28 Formula to calculate finger hole positions 29 Fetish Adjustment 30 Fetish Options 31 Flute Finger Hole Tables 3/4” inside bore flutes 32 Flute Finger Hole Tables 1” inside bore flutes 33 Flute Finger Hole Tables 1 1/8” inside bore flutes 34 Flute Finger Hole Tables 1 1/4” inside bore flutes 35 Flute Finger Hole Tables 1 1/2” inside bore flutes




Make Your Own Wooden Flute


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Practical, fully illustrated guide to making a wooden flute with tools that are common in many home workshops or can be built. Playing instructions included.