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"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."
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"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."
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Native American Flutes
Small Size
 Listen to sound samples
below.
Flutes in the
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Eastern Cedar, Western
Cedar, Eastern Cedar
Available Lengths: 17"-14"
Available Keys: D, Eb, E, F, F#
Price Range: $80 - $180
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. Your flute can be made from a broad selection
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Custom Made For You
Your
Native American Flute will be made especially for you.
If you need help deciding which flute size or wood type is the
best choice for you, call (Phone: 417-535-6032) or email. We'd love to hear from
you.
5 Hole Flute vs
6 Hole Flute
We can make you a 5 hole flute but we prefer a 6 hole flute.
The basic fingering pattern for a 6 hole flute, is exactly the
same as a 5 hole flute. When you first start playing your 6 hole
flute, you will leave the 3rd hole from the top, covered all
the time. As you progress in your playing, you will want the
benefit that the additional hole on a 6 hole flute will give
you. Our book "Getting
To Know Your Native American Flute", will teach you how to take care
of your flute and how to play it.
Tone and Wood Choice
The tone of a Native American Flute is determined in part
by the type of wood used. The softer woods (cedar,sassafras etc...)
produce a warmer tone. The harder woods (red heart, osage orange
etc...) produce a brighter tone. Tone is not volume. It is the
texture of the sound. We offer you a large selection of wood choices.
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Cedar(s) |
Hard Woods |
Exotic Woods |
Curly Woods |
Rare Woods |
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.
Not electronically altered ~ Flute Sound Samples
The natural rich warm sound of a Native American Flute touches
the soul of all those who hear it. It is our experience that
each individual responds to different keys. Discovering which
key calms you, is easy on our website. Our sound samples DO NOT
have any effects added to them. Our flutes sound exactly like
this naturally (Clear, Crisp, Loud, Non-breathy, & No air
hiss). Our
flutes will sound this way for you when you play them at home. Your flute will produce this rich, clean
quality sound and have tremendous volume, without a microphone.
Your Internet Access Speed and Flute Sound Files
Aol, Prodigy, etc... Dial Up Internet Access
is very slow... Be patient ... Sound Files are big and take awhile to download
to your computer.
Listen to these flutes.
Choosing a Key
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Jerry
is playing a medium A flute.
Lisa is playing a large E flute.
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* We often have
a small stock of completed
flutes
on hand that we take with us to shows. These flutes are available
for immediate sale. Otherwise, we will make your flute especially
for you when you order it. |
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About Your Wood Choice
  
The Joy of Wood
Shopping
"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.
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.
For our Eastern
Cedar and Sassafras wood, we buy it from a local Ozark man. We
trust his judgment and he always sends us beautiful pieces. Some
of our rare and exotic woods, we purchase from other sources
around the country and Hawaii.
I just "love"
to go wood shopping." ~~ Lisa Fretwell
Availability of Unique
Woods
Most
wood will make a wonderful flute. Email or call us (417-535-6032) about the availability
of woods not shown on our website such as: Koa, Curly Koa, Honey
Mesquite, Black Mesquite, Quina, Wenge, Spanish Cedar, Redwood,
Sapele, Quilted Sapele, Rose woods, & Quatersawn woods.
Pieces of Wood Special
to You
We encourage
you to do some internet window shopping for unique wood. If you
find a piece of wood that you like, we will make your flute from
that piece. 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.
FYI - Wood - 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. We do not stain our flutes.
The colors you see in our website images are what the wood looks
like naturally.
3 Commonly
asked Questions and Answers
The images below are what
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