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.

Simple flutes of bamboo, wood, metal, plastic, or clay can be a joy to play and make. This book gives you the basics of simple flute playing, then offers guidelines for making flutes of your own from a variety of materials. It even includes a handy chart for "where to put the holes." "Simple Flutes" is a must for simple flute players and makers //////////////////////////////////////////////////// Mark Shepard is the author of "How to Love Your Flute," hailed by Paul Horn as "a model for our times," as well as the craft guide "Simple Flutes." For many years, he was a professional artisan, making and selling flutes of bamboo or plastic. //////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Contains the essense of a tremendous amount of experience." -- Sam Hinton, Sing Out "An excellent overview." -- Monty Levenson, Tai Hei Shakuhachi "A slim, elegantly presented, and highly practical guide. . . . First-rate, user friendly." -- Midwest Book Review, Aug. 2002 "This thin volume contains a wealth of information." -- Linda Dailey Paulson, Dirty Linen, Oct.-Nov. 2002 //////////////////////////////////////////////////// CONTENTS 1 PLAYING The Sound The Hands The Notes Second Octave Sharps and Flats Breath and Tonguing Making Music Flute Care 2 MAKING Flute Qualities The Flute Tube The Mouthhole The Fingerholes Tuning Stoppers Finishes Plastic Bamboo Wood Clay Metal Other //////////////////////////////////////////////////// SAMPLE Here are the two most important rules for tuning: -- A hole will give a higher note if it is placed closer to the mouthhole. It will give a lower note if placed farther away. -- A hole will give a higher note if made larger. It will give a lower note if smaller. These rules mean you can "raise" a note by enlarging the hole or by placing the hole closer to the mouthhole. You can "lower" the note by using a smaller hole or by placing the hole farther from the mouthhole. It also means you can change the hole size and its placement without changing the note. A larger hole could be placed farther from the mouthhole, or a smaller hole placed closer to the mouthhole.

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.

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..

A comprehensive instruction manual for learning to play the Native American flute, including information on tunings, fingerings, performance technique, tablature, style, history, standard notation, traditional ornaments, and a section on the care and maintenance of the flute. Also features sixteen transcriptions of songs from Nakai's recordings, and an analysis of his career as a recording artist and performer by the ethnomusicologist David P. McAllester.

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

This book will teach you to play the dongxiao, the Chinese bamboo flute that is blown vertically. Likewise, the ways to choose and maintain a dongxiao, as well as its structure and key signatures will be introduced, whereas a number of sheet music will also be provided for practices. After reading the whole book, you should have a basic understanding of the dongxiao and can play some simple songs by yourself.

While the wooden simple-system flute is traditionally used in playing Irish music, a growing number of folk players have adopted the silver flute as a viable alternative. Here for the first time, The Complete Irish Flute Book presents the silver or Boehm flutist with a method for learning authentic Irish ornamentation!This thorough guide provides detailed fingering charts, exercises, and technicalessays for learning to execute ornaments in the in the Irish style. Through a wealth of hornpipes, reels, jigs, set dances, and slow airs and songs. This bookfocuses not only on musical accuracy, but stylistic authenticity as well. The companion audio download available online contains 26 of the 101 tunes fromthe book

Jon Kypros took his experiences of teaching students from all over the world and concentrated them into this thorough guide on the fundamentals of playing the shakuhachi. You will find in-depth looks at key aspects of playing the shakuhachi, inventive exercises, high resolution photographs, and 28 folk songs in beautiful shakuhachi notation.Jon Kypros is one of the foremost teachers and makers of shakuhachi in The US with students worldwide. He is an expert of traditional Zen honkyoku shakuhachi music which he teaches to his students both in person and over live video chat.