Welcome, This is the Yahoo! Message Board for Native Flute Woodworking community....
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greatwave
Oct 5, 1998 11:44 pm
lick on the founders homepage for the answer....
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greatwave
Oct 11, 1998 10:31 pm
f you are reading this then why don't you leave a greeting or ask any questions you would like? This is your space, too, so don't be shy. You may need to go to...
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greatwave
Oct 11, 1998 10:39 pm
here are several types of glues that work differently on different woods. "Click" on reply and put in your 2 cents about what type of glue does/doesn't work ...
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DSY72757
Oct 13, 1998 3:01 pm
have always been interested in flute making. I don't know anything about where to start....
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greatwave
Oct 14, 1998 1:23 am
good place to start is from instructions in a book by a Ben Hunt called "Native Indian Survival Skills" or something close to that. Perhaps American Indian...
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oitz
Oct 21, 1998 5:20 am
nother good resource (that is still in print) are the books from Lew Paxton Price. I'd pretty much consider him the 'god' of native flute making physics. He ...
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oitz
Oct 21, 1998 5:20 am
nother good resource (that is still in print) are the books from Lew Paxton Price. I'd pretty much consider him the 'god' of native flute making physics. He ...
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oitz
Oct 21, 1998 5:20 am
nother good resource (that is still in print) are the books from Lew Paxton Price. I'd pretty much consider him the 'god' of native flute making physics. He ...
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oitz
Oct 21, 1998 5:20 am
nother good resource (that is still in print) are the books from Lew Paxton Price. I'd pretty much consider him the 'god' of native flute making physics. He ...
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dogfox64
Oct 25, 1998 10:27 pm
hat luck as anyone had with the instructions on that page? <br><br>I saw in that article that they recommend an angle of 71 degrees. That seems rather steep ...
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greatwave
Oct 26, 1998 4:12 am
fter a week of "bad" luck with my van I'm back for a while. Wings around that sound hole will change sound. Lew Price uses a bird with no wings that hangs over...
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greatwave
Oct 26, 1998 4:25 am
hysics says 30 degrees is good but I don't ever measure it. I also make that hole after the pieces are glued back together. My little flat files file an ...
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dogfox64
Oct 26, 1998 7:04 pm
ooked at a the angle on a recorder and it looks like 30. But the angle on your flutes looks more like 40 plus. Tried 42 for most of the day [and night]. Had a...
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dogfox64
Oct 27, 1998 5:46 am
hen nothing else worked, started sawing sections off end of flute. Of course, this screwed up the tuning I had done, but after a 5 inch section was taken off,...
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greatwave
Oct 28, 1998 12:54 pm
lamp the flute when the outside is still square and the inside is routed. I use about 16 clamps and clamp on the edge so the pressure goes directly through the...
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greatwave
Oct 28, 1998 1:05 pm
do all of this by sight and don't measure anything. An angle of somewhere between 30 and 40 degrees must work but I'm limited by the tools. I have made a few...
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dogfox64
Oct 28, 1998 4:54 pm
o you pay a lot of attention to wall thickness at the playing holes before tuning or do you slightly adjust it, if necessary, with finger ...
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greatwave
Oct 28, 1998 9:22 pm
he thinner the wall , the smaller the fingers holes need to be. Contouring for the fingers will tune that note higher by making the wall thinner at that finger...
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greatwave
Oct 28, 1998 9:22 pm
he thinner the wall , the smaller the fingers holes need to be. Contouring for the fingers will tune that note higher by making the wall thinner at that finger...
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mick0007
Nov 1, 1998 3:26 pm
was wondering if there is any ideas as to why the flute overblows easily? And how do I correct it?...
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greatwave
Nov 2, 1998 11:37 pm
ick, many things can lead to this result so you have to do some experiments to figure out why. A glue seam that has a slight opening is one reason. This is ...
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entrekin1
Nov 10, 1998 8:08 pm
hat type of finish is best for the interior of a Native American Flute? I like a satiny finish for the exterior, but I was wondering if a harder finish might...
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greatwave
Nov 11, 1998 9:09 pm
ee, I suppose that the inside needs to be as smooth as possible to produce a clean tone. The look of the finish isn't as important as the smoothness of the...
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ramware
Nov 12, 1998 2:15 am
've been working on a spreadsheet to calculate hole placement based on Lew Paxton Price's formulas. Has anyone been successful using these calculations or his...
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greatwave
Nov 12, 1998 1:32 pm
ay, How was this done in the 10,000 years prior to Lew? Lew has the mind of a genius and his calculations are correct but very difficult for me, a sub-genius,...
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ramware
Nov 12, 1998 4:11 pm
hanks Dusty. I suspected I would get a similar response, but I didn't expect the first one to come from you. I somehow expected your methods to be of a ...
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entrekin1
Nov 12, 1998 5:09 pm
am a beginning maker. I've made two flutes so far, one of aromatic cedar and one of red cedar. I used mineral oil on the interior, and beeswax on the outside....
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greatwave
Nov 12, 1998 11:06 pm
his muted sound may be due to other factors. Is the flue shallow or deep? Is the flue in the bird or the flute body? Is the bird perfectly tight and flat ...
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greatwave
Nov 12, 1998 11:32 pm
use a Korg electronic tuner set to 440 Megahertz for the note A. The weather will change a tone or sharpen or flaten a tone. It took me a long time to realize...
