Yucca Flute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPbD2HLRCrA Excuse my enthusiasim with this moviemaker program and my flute journeys. I stopped making flutes 2 years ago, maybe about the time I quit posting here? I...
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Hi Lenny, That yucca flute is interesting...you make some nice flutes...was wondering about the tuning on the flute you played on youtube? Rand Catahoulaflutes.com
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I can't find the flute right now to check, my wife must of hid it so I would not sell it. I usually use a tuning used by many flutemakers, that R Carlos Nakai popularized. Since I do this by memory...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxXQN9SxJXwAgain John Vames taught me a lot about tuning and how to use it in making even though he was a preformer and teacher. I have a habit of just going with a...
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Hi, I used to have a flute with that tuning...I too find some of Lew's information pertains to my branch flutes...I was taught by a Boo flute maker several years back...modes 1 and 4 six hole flutes...
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Rand, I love your flutes, maybe we can do a trade some time. I favorited your website as I can learn some about making nice ones just looking at yours. I know another retired Educator/teacher turned...
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Hi Lenny,Sure...and if you would like to swap some Southwestern flute wood for some holly or other eastern branch wood we can do that too. I love making flutes...just a joy to see how each one turns...
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flutes always sound and play better when you let them become what they will. i just dial in whatever fundamental it becomes. every flute i've ever "forced" into a particular key had no life when it...
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Pan, Twist them hard...that pretty much says the way to go. I use one flute that is a dead on F# to set the Korg by...got big temp issues here in the South and keeping the tuning at 72 takes a bit of...
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catahoula, where you are you have the same issues with temp fluctuation and humidity i have here on the gulf coast. 72 degrees is seldom seen, so i usually aim for 75 or 80. every degree up or down...
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Hi Pan,Very nice looking flutes...interesting tips and birds...you can see some of mine at Catahoulaflutes.com You can also see some woodburning that my wife Barbara did for me on a pear walking...
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