How to Make a Native American Flute from Sumac

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  • This is excellent! Thank you so much for posting this. Are there any other woods that you would recommend for making flutes?

  • @kalvarez2414 i recommend trying it with cedar as well....and any other wood too...try them all ;)

  • All I have to say is wow. As a fellow NASF maker sometimes we forget the simple way of doing things. A lot of us get too involved in trying to buy the right tools for the job that we forget to go back to the basics. I want to applaud you on an awesome job. I enjoyed this video a lot and look forward to others. If you have a sale price on your flutes please e-mail me at Ventura974@gmail.com. Looking forward to hearing back from ya. Namaste.

  • @Ventura991974 thanks so much...will send an email

  • Bro this video is just amazing.Greetings from Greece!!! :D .U know the problem that i have 70% is that with the trees growing in our country(which are also inasane good for flutes)i cant cut the branch exaclty in the mid just like u did in the beggining of the video...Plz can u advice me about that ?I love making lfutes also and i make from simple cane(cause we dont have bamboo here)Soon ill add a video also!!!

  • @kalikoutas the thing is some woods split easy and some dont.....all of them split better if completely dry tho....cant wait to see your vid

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  • I rename you "He who cries with the wind" Amazing, thank you for the video

  • @MysteryMan159 that is the note you are trying to emphasize....thats the key to a good NA flute...you breath into it slowly....dont blow.....to increase the volume is kind of tricky....one thing you can do is slowly increase the size of the sound hole with sandpaper...very slowly....also you want everything to be extremely smooth in the sound hole area....so very fine sand paper helps alot.....let me know if this helps

  • @flamefinger1989 you are very welcome :)

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