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SMALL SIZE FLUTES
A Perfect Addition To Your Flute Collection

	TRADITIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN STYLE FLUTES
	Made Especially For You

	Flute Key Choices: D,Eb,E
	These flutes are the Small High Pitched Flutes above Middle C. Their high sweet pitches make for great high spirited melodies. Playing alone or with a group, these are a great addition to your flute collection. They range 15" - 16" in length.

CHOOSING YOUR FLUTE

*	Listen To The Flutes
	Choose your favorite key. Scroll down page to hear flutes.

*	Look At The Wood Choices Choose your favorite wood. Scroll down page to see wood grain closeups.


	$$150 - $275

CUSTOMER COMMENTS

"I received a lovely addition to my family of flutes today. It's small and beautiful and has the sweetest voice... I love the way the curly maple all but glows.... I have already found that it is the easiest flute I have, to do a half hole on the lowest note."

~ Dan Aslin
Internet Customer
California , USA

Pictured: Kayla
Internet Customer
Southwestern USA
She is playing a small F flute.

"I love it, I even brought it in to the office to show it off. Thank you so very much for all your help and hard work. I understand now why everybody you talk to has more than one. It's like potato chips, ones just not enough."

~~Pam Saling
Customer Referral
U.S.A.

CHANGE

Change The World
One Flute At A Time

If you play flute 30 minutes a day,

Then,

1. You receive more oxygen to your body due to the deep breathing required to play flute. You are more relaxed, healthier, and happier.

2. Because you are happier, you are nicer to your family, friends, and strangers.

3. Because you were nicer to them, your family, friends, and everyone you meet is nicer to the people in their lives.

4. And so on, and so on.

	LISTEN TO THE FLUTES
	Click on the blue letter* to hear that flute.*

Small Flutes

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Be Patient ... Sound Files Are Worth The Wait.

	Which Key Of Flute Touches You?
	The natural rich warm sound that comes only from an instrument made from wood, touches the soul of all those who hear it. It is our experience that each individual person has a specific key that touches them uniquely. Discovering which key calms you, is easy on our website. We have lots of flutes for you to hear.

	Concert Quality ~ A440 Tuned Your flute will be tuned using an electronic tuner to ensure that it has concert quality pitch. This will enable you to play along with other instruments.

	*Flute Sound* Files ~ Not Electronically Altered** Our flute sound files DO NOT have any effects added to them. Our flutes sound exactly like this naturally (Clear, Crisp, Loud, Non-breathy, & No air hiss). Your flute will sound this way for you when you play it at home. Your flute will produce a rich, clean quality sound and have tremendous volume, without the use of a microphone.

LISTEN TO MORE SMALL SIZE FLUTES

Click Here	Key of D	Eastern Cedar
Click Here	Key of Eb	Purple Heart
Click Here	Key of E	Purple Heart
Click Here	Key of E	Eastern Cedar

CHOOSE YOUR FAVORITE WOOD

FLUTES IN THE PICTURE
Eastern Cedar, Western Cedar, Eastern Cedar

Flute Tone and Wood Choice

The tone of your flute is determined in part by the type of wood used. The softer woods produce a warmer tone. The harder woods produce a brighter tone. Tone is not volume. Tone is the texture of the sound.

The Joy of Wood Shopping
" I have a blast when we go wood shopping. I'm like a kid in a candy store. Soooooo... many beautifully grained pieces of wood to choose from. We always come away with much more wood that we went to buy. Some pieces of wood, I "just can't resist". They just beg to be made into a flute." I just "love" to go wood shopping." ~~ Lisa Fretwell

Most of our hardwoods and exotics we purchase from a speciality store about an hour away from our home. We hand pick each piece. We look for unique and beautiful grain patterns as well as exceptional color. We purchase our Eastern Cedar wood from a local young man. He cuts and mills the cedar from here in the Ozarks. Some of our rare and exotic woods, we purchase from other sources around the country. Koa and Curly Koa we purchase directly from Hawaii.

Availability of Unique Woods
Most wood will make a wonderful flute. Call us ~ Phone: 1-417-535-6032 and ask about the availability of woods not shown on our website such as: Koa, Curly Koa, Honey Mesquite, Black Mesquite, Quina, Spanish Cedar, Sapele, Quilted Sapele, Rose woods, & Quatersawn woods.

Pieces of Wood Special to You
If you have a piece of wood that's special to you, send it to us and we will make your flute from that piece.

Some of our customers go to their local wood store and choose their own piece of wood. Wood grain and color are unique to each board that is cut. Each piece of wood has it's own unique spirit. When you can see and touch the piece of wood, the spirit of the wood can talk to you.

Combination Flutes

We can add inlay, endcaps, or rings to your flute.

You choose your wood combination.

Call us (1-417-535-6032) to discuss your specialty flute and pricing.

Three Commonly Asked Questions

Q: What do you use to seal the wood?
A: Over a period of several days, we apply several thin coats of non-toxic, humanly edible shellac to the outside of your flute. (It's the same shellac that is used in the food industry when making licorice candy.) After the shellac has set completely. We give your flute a mineral oil bath and we place it in the drying rack for a couple of days to dry. Clear shellac lets the natural grain pattern and color of the wood stand out. Your flute will have a soft shine.

Q: Is Purple Heart wood really a natural purple color?
A: Yes it is. We have had the opportunity to work with it a lot. Some pieces are more deep purple in color and others are more reddish purple. When the wood is fresh cut, it is all brighter purple. Over time as it is exposed to the sun, it will all turn to a darker richer shade of purple.

Q: Is Pink Ivory wood really a natural reddish / pink / salmon color?
A: YES

WOOD GRAIN CLOSEUPS AND PRICING

Natural Colors and Grain Patterns
We have taken great care with our website images so that they are a good representation of the "true" color and grain patterns of the wood choices we offer. Wood naturally varies from piece to piece. The grain pattern and the shade of the color are things that vary slightly from piece to piece. The colors of the woods you see in our website images are what the wood looks like, naturally. We do not stain our flutes.

Small Size Flute Prices
Flute prices are determined by the size of the flute, the cost of the raw wood to us, and the wear and tear on our equipment by the harder woods.

We have 5 categories of pricing.

$150	Cedar Woods
$175	Domestic Woods - USA
$200	Imported Woods and X-tra Hard Domestic Woods
$225	Curly and Highly Figured Grain Woods - (Domestic and Imported)
$275	Rare Woods

*All amounts are listed in United States Dollars (USD)

Cedar - Eastern	Cedar - Western	Ash	Ash - Curly	Birch
$150	$150	$175	$225	$175

Birch - Flame	Bloodwood	Bubinga	Bubinga -Pomelle	Canary Wood
$225	$200	$200	$225	$200

Cherry	Cherry - Curly	Juniper	Lacewood	Leopardwood
$175	$225	$175	$200	$200

Mahogany	Maple	Maple - Curly	Osage Orange	Padauk
$150	$175	$225	$200	$200

Red Heart	Sassafras	Sitka Spruce	Walnut	Walnut - Curly
$200	$175	$175	$175	$225

Yellow Heart

Oak - Red

Oak - White

$200

$175

Red Oak can be the same color tone as white oak or it can have a pink/red hue to it. Each board is unique.

What differentiates a piece of white oak from a piece of red oak is the "Tick Marks". White Oak has long lines as tick marks. Red Oak has short lines as tick marks.

Pink Ivory

Purple Heart

Zebra Wood

Kingwood

$275

$200

Pink Ivory has many shades of pink, salmon and pink/orange. Each piece of wood is unique.

Purple Heart darkens the longer that is it exposed to air and sunlight.

Zebra Wood has two distinct grain patterns depending on the part of the tree that the board is cut from. Each board is unique.

Kingwood has two distinct grain patterns (Swirls and Stripes). The color tone can be a purple/brown or a blonde/brown. Each board is unique.

F.Y.I.
5 Hole Flute vs 6 Hole Flute
We can make you a 5 hole flute but, we prefer a 6 hole flute. Let me explain why.
The Open Hole Fingering Minor Pentatonic Scale is played exactly the same on a 6 hole flute and a 5 hole flute. The difference is, on a 6 hole flute you keep the 3rd hole from the top covered all the time.
As you progress in your playing, you will want the benefit of being able to use the additional hole on a 6 hole flute.

FLUTE BUILDING AND DELIVERY TIMES

Your flute will be made especially for you when you place your order. Building your flute takes 3-4 weeks. Transit time in shipping is dependant on your country's postal system and customs clearance process. We will email you with the tracking information when we ship your flute.

Flute Arrival To You

U.S.A. 4-5 weeks

Africa 5-6 weeks

Australia 5-6 weeks

Canada 5-6 weeks

Czech Republic 6-7 weeks

Denmark 4-5 weeks

France 6-7 weeks

Germany 5-6 weeks

Great Britain
and Northern Ireland 5-6 weeks

Ireland 5-6 weeks

Italy 5-6 weeks

Netherlands 5-6 weeks

New Zealand 4-5 weeks

Spain 4-5 weeks

Sweden 4-5 weeks

Switzerland 4-5 weeks

All Other Countries 4-7 weeks

International (non-U.S.A.) Transit Time

The delivery speed of the postal system in your country and the customs clearance time in your country determine how long your flute is in transit.

SHIPPING AND HANDLING FEES

We use the U.S. Mail System to ship our products. We ship using the Priority Mail and Priority Mail International Service. This provides tracking and insurance.

International Orders : Shopping Cart : Shipping Fee

International customers who use our online shopping cart will be charged a SPLIT shipping fee. At checkout, the $15 base fee will be charged. After you place your order, we will email you an invoice for the balance of the shipping fee. This amount will be the difference between the $15 you pay at time of check out and the actual cost to ship to your country.

We use a simple inexpensive online shopping cart service. It can not calculate multiple country shipping charges.

This simple shopping cart keeps our costs down and allows us to pass the savings onto you. We apologize for the inconvenience of having to split up the shipping fee.

ORDER YOUR FLUTE

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Order By Phone: 1-417-535-6032

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