WOW...............33 years. Great. Thank you.

I love your passion for teaching and explaining . I will have to revisit this video , as I’m distracted at the moment . I really hope to buy a flute from you , I just love the detail that you so generously share . Thank you 😊❤

Great information there! I’m a beginner player -but have been a lifetime listener!- of the NA flute and I originally thought I probably would never attempt to make one myself but I get the feeling there will come a day soon (after watching all of your videos and more experience playing) where I will feel confident enough to take that first step. Keep the videos coming, it’s always a great day when you upload a new vid!!!

I always enjoy and learn from your videos. Thanks, Charlie. I will be receiving my googol flute soon. 😇

Yes Charlie, I do need to watch some of your older videos to refresh what I am trying to do. Do you realize that you offer a unique teaching for this style of flute? I hope every one that watches this can come to know how much you have given to them and me. Thanks Charlie.

Thanks from Australia Charlie... your work on this platform has inspired a change in my life's direction. My skills are developing nicely and once I'm happy with my product line, I'll send you a sample for your collection. I like to give credit where credit is due.

Ooh. That kena hybrid is fantastic!

Low D Irish flutes , like the silver flute play 2 1/2 octaves also but only need 6 holes interestingly enough . It's achieved with the blow strength and the last octave is real tricky to get .

Greetings From The Tsalagi Nation!! 🎉🎉🍀🌲🌿🌳🍂🍁🍃

Yes! The labium (the bit the air hits to make the sound) and the airway are critical. They give the the overall tone even more-so than that the materials the flute is made from. The window (the space between the airway and the labium) is also critical for the range and tone. The materials have an influence of course, but a flute is nothing without a good airway. I've made about two dozen so far (just a beginner) so the experimentation continues...

Illuminating as always! Thanks, Charlie. And it’s always good to hear the quena included in the discussion. ❤️

FANTASTIC! So, maybe it is possible to say that the Native American's who figured out how to build the "track" into the flute is one of the first forms of "EQ-ing" and/or "Musical Processing"

Love the sound of your small diameter 6 hole flute. What are its length, diameter and hole spacings?

I attempted making a low C flute following your dimensions. With all holes closed it makes a wonderful low C note, but with a open hole it is extremely airy. What am I doing wrong? Thank you, Michael

I know maple I'm not allergic to and ceramic the other instrument

Great flute maker and great flute player, but I think he makes a common error when it comes to the fife. After lots of research and listening to fife players on the interwebs, I've come to the conclusion that fifes are blown one octave higher than every other flute I've ever played. The fife's first octave is actually what we would call the second octave on other side-blown flutes that we're used to. Even though the fife has that lower octave, what we would normally call the first octave, the lowest notes will blow out of tune in a good, true, historically-patterned fife. Good fifes are intended to spend most of their time in the middle and highest octaves, and only occasionally dip down into the lowest octave. This is sort of the opposite of most other keyless flute. I've obtained a nice (expensive) historically accurate fife from Cooperman fifes, and I was quite frustrated at the intonation in the low ("first") octave. I was having to compensate a lot. I thought maybe it was badly made. I started searching for alternate fingering charts, videos, and fife music and I noticed that trained fifers were playing their tunes one octave higher than people who were just demoing their new fife purchase on KZfaq. And, in particular, they would spend a lot of time well into the high ("third") octave which is not common with other flutes. With some effort, I've learned to play a complete third octave on the fife. Now, when I play traditional fife tunes or even Irish Traditional tunes on the fife, one octave higher than I normally would, the intonation on this excellent fife is right on. Clearly fifes were designed to be annoyingly loud and to cut through all kinds of battle noises. They were used to signal troops both during and between battles so that had to be shrill and cutting.