I love the Bob Ross pin! I still enjoy his vids! Lets go out into the happy forest and take a happy little piece of river cane and sit down by a happy little pond and make a happy little flute with our happy little pocket knife and listen to all of the happy little frogs that live here sing their happy little song!

Also - it's 3:30 in the morning, why did I decide NOW is the best time to learn this?? Lol

BlueBear is the best guy when it comes to native american flutes.

Today I learned 2 things: how to make a flute out of river cane & that bedbugs can dissolve your heart. Time to burn the whole house down now.

I think the bug is what we also call an assassin bug, but can't tell without a close up look. My master's degree was in Entomology. This has been a very fascinating look into what the Native Americans did to make flutes without modern tools. I was really curious about how they made the sound hole. Charlie, your videos are always so educational. Love my googol flute that I received about a week ago. Thanks.

Hey Charlie, thanks for your great work on my Scarab totem!! Love your work.

I love the spring peepers they are one of the sounds I eagerly await every year as they are a sure sign of coming spring.

Just wonderful...Thank you Charlie!!

I was born on a large farm in Western Pennsylvania three miles from the West Virginia border. Two distinct sounds lulled me to sleep each night from my birth to the time left the farm at the age of 21 when I moved back to London to stay with my mother and after that to Oslo, Norway where I joined the service. Those were the sound of the great, large air blowers hauling oxygen deep underground to the Robena number three mine a few miles from the farm. The blower looked like a giant megaphone laid on its side in the middle of a field at the mine site. The sound might be called loud but not in the way of a horn or clanking machinery; it was more of a whooshing sound that was actually comforting to listen to as I fell asleep. The other sound was what you described made by large and tiny frogs of all types chirping, chattering in chorus along with other creatures including all kinds of insects like crickets, locusts and more. These two “noises” were the symphony that helped me to sleep each night. I heard this sound so long in my life that to this day I still hear them inwardly down here in Texas where I live now. But these sounds are echos of the past and not here in reality where I live in suburban Dallas. My mind calls them up some difficult nights when I need them to calm my PTSD which often rises up to pester me with bad memories of combat and more horrors that I experienced when I was in the Norwegian Jaegerkommandoen and sent into Serbia and Croatia in the early 1990’s in an attempt to put a stop to the ethnic cleansing of innocent people including children by Serbian army regulars. The farm is long gone now and those gentle ghosts of my family are also gone but they are with me often at night as they bend, sigh, laugh, and cry in my dreams. These sounds and early memories help me to fight off those terrors and atrocities of war. Thank you for helping me remember this today as I watch your excellent flute making video. I have access to a stand of mature bamboo on my property that I am going to use to attempt flute making that you have inspired me to try. The world right now is so filled with unpleasant noise and bad-hearted meanness. I am a musician having played guitar since I was five years old and one of the degrees I earned after the service is in music theory. I still play guitar though arthritis limits my speed and facility on the instrument so I am going to try the flute: That is if I can make a couple of them that sound good and in tune. I am not entirely confident that this will be the case. 🤣 Thanks again. I subscribed to your channel and will tell others who might be interested in the subject. Also, sorry for any typos or unfortunate auto-corrects. I type fast and inaccurately and am loathe to go back and look for mistakes. Great channel. Peace and happiness to you and yours from an old, wounded, haunted and reluctant warrior.

That's so cool!!! Thank you so much it made my day!

This is so cool, Thank you for sharing.

Love this thank you.. you are still a very talented person and inspired me to get better with my flute

I Loved this video! Thank you.

Thank you sir... thank you for sharing you acknowledge and wisdom

Totally loved it. I am chilean, we have a form of bamboo that could serve to try this. Love your channel, thanks for sharing!

I have watched alot of vids on this subject and for me yours is the most entertaining and imformative of all the ones I've watched. Thank you for these and keep them coming.

Perfect,guy! Love it. Thanks very much for that brilliant idea. Great.

Very inspiring! I really like these minimalist videos.

Back again after several years. My first flute just cracked. Have a piece of bamboo that’s been drying for a few years now that’s ready to go. Thank you for being a continuous source of knowledge!

Beautiful video very relaxing to watch thanks.

Great video. I really appreciate the how-to videos that use minimal tools. You are a great teacher and very talented craftsman. Thanks for the vids.

I learned a lot from you and not only about flutes but about life too... I know I can always make a flute anywhere ...

This is awesome. There is a rivercane break on a creek where I like to fish. I will be giving this a try this spring if I can find any large enough. There is a lot there that is perfect for arrow shafts, but the big pieces are few and far between for some reason.Thank you.

The Bob Ross of flute making! 💜

Very impressive and of course ‘ Not too Shabby at All’ You are an Artist and Expert at your Craft. Bob. Athens. GA

Intelligent keep up the good work. Thumbs up Charlie

Nice vid! Its cool that you can go out into the woods and find stuff to make a musical instrument out of

Thank you for the video and demonstration. -David

Great video dude! thx for sharin it with us!

This is the most amazing content thank you brother for this

Thank you for this outstanding instructional video. I have viewed a few of your others where you are working in your shop. From those I can see that you are a master of your craft, yet you take the time to demonstrate the simpler older methods and show that a very similar end product can be achieved using those methods as well. Beyond that, you encourage us to try to make one of these flutes ourselves, and ensure us that we would be quite likely to succeed if we tried. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us who are interested in Native American culture. I recently became aware of your efforts via the channel of Far North Bushcraft and Survival, where Lonnie has made instructional videos on Native American flute making as well. I appreciate how you, in the same manner as Lonnie are willing to provide these clear instructional videos for everyone's benefit.

Your Grandfather must have been a very wise and wonderful man .with great story's and knowledge .stay blessed

Thank you spiritual brother.

Love your Bob Ross badge cleaver artist, just as your also a great flute maker

Siple Amazing! You are a great! Greeting from north west Italy. Dario

I love making native flutes! I wish I could get ahold of some of that stock you are using! LOL Not here where I live in Canada...darn!:) Cheers and thank you for keeping a wonderful tradition alive and well!:)

Was not expecting bamboo in that forest!

Very cool thank you!

I can just watch this video again and again. I could even just sit there with you guys in the cold and keep practicing how to make a flute with just a pocket knife. This video is my impetus to go, get a bamboo cane and start making a flute. Thank you for this beautiful and informative video. I'll definitely subscribe.

Fantastic video Charlie, thanks! ;) #Heart

awesome vid charlie , great tips billy joe

Amazing

Thanks so much 🙏

You are the Bob Ross of wood works and fluits

Thank you very much dear friend. Very cool, i go make my instrument now too here in Brazil, see you later. Bye gratifull

oh yeahhh! i made a cherokee whistle out of some elderberry it plays and has some tuning issues but it's the first one i kept and didn't snap thank you for these videos and the links you shared to me .

That was very interesting.

Hey Charlie! I'm a new viewer of your videos, but I adore them! This was very nice to listen to, hearing your stories and local knowledge while I learn (reminds me of my own father lol). You're incredibly skilled and I appreciate the work you put into your videos for all of us!

You are wearing the Bob Ross pin... And to be honest, this video was very Bob Ross-esque. My wife was like "when did Bib Ross make flutes?" This is a super huge compliment in our household. I'm new to your channel, and I am hoping to purchase a flute from you soon. I had a flute when I was a child. One day it went missing. My mother told me, "When an instrument or stone (I used to collect a lot of drums and a lot if stones like Lapis and Tiger's Eye, among others) goes missing, it is because your time with it is done, and it has returned to the Universe to be gifted to another who has need of its healing properties." I thought that was a beautiful way to see it. I'm nervous about buying a new flute now that I am 41, but I feel like it is time. I am so glad I have discovered your channel and your social media and your website. You will hear from me soon, I hope.

Thanks for this

Thanks a lot🙏

Your video certainly demonstrates that it is entirely possible to make a flute without a lot of fancy tools. But you do need to know exactly what you’re doing. It is very impressive you were able to eyeball the finger hole placements and get it to play in a recognizable scale. Great video and I enjoyed the commentary along the way.

pretty cool

I'm always looking for ways to connect with my ancestors, and making an instrument sounds really hard, but I love challenges.

I have loved the Native American flute for a while. I need to see about making one so that I can learn how to play it

Thumbs up for the Bob Ross pin =D

Thanks for this video. Very inspiring. Soon its going to be spring here in Finland and i will go to forest to make some flute experiments. 😆

frogs, crickets, cicadas all part of the symphony day and night here in Texas. It would be weird without them.

Gracias Charlie, lo que haces es como magia ... y mi navaja sigue sin filo...jajaja

Thank you.

i bought a native flute from the Andes and some others from there as well its different from your flutes but i did the same thing i copied the flute onto pvc but i changed hole sizes and the last finger hole and in the end theres a piece that is a choke i made the hole in the choke bigger with all them changes and no way to tune it it is my favorite flute of any i am interested in your flute with this air hole block thing instead of the notch i play now i will provably buy your book

Hey Charlie,you have a new old friend----me‼️My name is Leonard " Rascsl " Barnett, I am 69 year's old and I discovered you by accident but I am so happy I did.I gave contacted you before but thought I would let you know how interested in what you do,I have 7 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren and I want to make them each a Native American Flute using bamboo that is plentyfull in Western Kentucky and Southern Indiana,so you will be hearing from me more.I want to order a flute from you later on,but I can't right now because it is so close to Christmas and I am retired and don't have a lot of money to spare right now.I love the teachings that you use as you work on your flutes,like the sounds of frog's,that I to love and the night sound's I love too.I will be ordering at least one of your books.Thank you so much for your kindness and teaching us something worthwhile,I only hope I can learn to play the Native American Flute when I get my hands on one. Thank You Charlie, Rascal

Im from louisiana, we hear everything making a noise here, a lot of bulfrogs, the gators sound like a bull making a low grouwling sound and the babies make a sqeeking sound like a bird, then mama gator will hear baby and come real fast, a flute can be an alert noise for help but the music is better.thanks going to bed with the chickens (means early), love the louisiana noise, it all stops when danger approaches like a storm, everything takes shelter.we are Choctaw, but from North West Louisiana, Shreveport /bossier, barksdale air force base, thanks .

Do you create other spacings of holes, other than a minor pentatonic scale? Maybe a Major pentatonic? There are many differing kinds of 5 note scales, depending on your purpose. Curious. Love this video. Do you use the name ''Bear'', as well, sir? My great, great grandmother's name was ''Bear''. She hailed originally from the northern latitudes of Norway - the Sami people. I never met her; just a stoic B&W portrait of a transplanted indigenous woman. I wish I'd met her. She became Anglicized - a ''good'' christian woman that, still, this side of the family ignored for generations, in memory. This saddens me. Did you notice at 'Standing Rock' a few years ago, when the tribes came together - as prophesy, in protest, gathered 'round the sacred fire - its 'vortex' reaching to the heavens (shaman) - 3 Sami women from Sweden or Norway, came to join this spiritual gathering. They came dressed in full, colorful dress, and were warmly welcomed. I'm a drummer/musician who loves Native music and rhythms, and other forms of music. I'm living in Fairfield, Iowa - home of about 2,000 practitioners of Transcendental Meditation. Does river cane also grow in the midwest? Is that Bob Ross on your button? Each late summer I greatly look forward to the collective sounds of tree frogs and crickets. You're right-on, the rhythms are varied and in 'surround sound'. I like to call these sounds, the ''summer sleigh bells''. . . one of the most mesmerizingly tranquil sounds in nature. To sleep at night with the window ajar is wondrously healing. Rhizomes - such as ginger, etc. I cook with ginger. Thanks, man. Love your Bob Ross voice and natural wisdom. The finished sounds and tuning of your handmade flute is perfection. On my 'virtual' keyboard, I've got a B minor pentatonic mode. btw - I also listen to 'classical' Indian flute music called Ghandarva-ved music. Some of these masters are astonishing.

thank you i like learning

When I make futes with just a knife, I use a lighter to burn off the little fibers. The lake behind you is a beautiful color.

Gracias saludos desde colombia

Very cool 🪶

hehe great and not too shabby :D

Always enjoy your videos. Can one use that invasive bamboo for flutes? It grows everywhere along the Tule here.

Love the sound of frogs and crickets at night. Moose rutting , in close proximity to camp...not so much...

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Hi, this video is beautiful. Thank you But don't you season the cane before processing it?

Классные!

Please .. is there a natural rigid wall/node between the 2 hole chambers? I mean .. I need to remove all natural bamboo nodes BUT this one between the sound holes? Is that correct ?

БОЛЬШОЕ СПАСИБО. ВЫ ПОСЕЯЛИ В МЕНЯ УВЕРЕННОСТЬ

This is great!! I've been wanting to make one and now I see that I actually can...and I will. You are right, it will be very soon.....like tomorrow!! Thank you for sharing!! 💜💕🌷 p.s. why do you put your hand up in the end. Hoping you don't mind my curiosity. LilyMarlaina

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Charlie... Where did u get that button????

34:12 amazing !

G'day Charlie. Have you tried not making a flat area for the track and using a piece of cane sanded to suit the round of the cane, and shaping the block? Did that make sense?

Where are you able to find cane stalks growing in nature?

I doubt you will see this comment considering this video was released quite some time ago but I recently found out that I have Ottawa in my ancestry and the Ottawa was adopted into the Cherokee tribe after the smallpox epidemic due to dwindling population numbers. However, I was always interested in Native American flutes long before I knew anything about my Native American ancestry. I can remember growing up that my dad would make "cane" poles for fishing for us kids and I am assuming it was made from this same river cane stuff but I can't remember the last time that I've ever seen any here. I live in Eastern Kentucky so I don't know if it just stopped growing here or if I just don't know what I'm looking for. I'm looking into getting a nice Native American flute at some point in time but right now I lack funds and this seems like a great way to possibly start. Is there anything I should look out for when searching for the river cane?

Unbelievable that someone would abandon a property because you can hear nature. But then again, stupid is what stupid does. Good that they leave it to those of us that can appreciate it!!🌷

Can you make one with hardwood? I live in Indiana where there’s not really any river cane.

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Kudos the cameraman sacrificed himself to the mosquitoes for this masterpiece 🙏🏻

while skipping around i landed on the part where you said "The old ones carry a bacterea that desolv your heart" and i nearly shit. i though you were talking about the bamboo! i spent the day with my mouth on old bamboo making flutes D:

Hy, Greetings from Switzerland, I am a huge Fan of Native american culture, I want make a native american flute by myself, but there is something I still not understand, maybe you made a video about this already, but how look like the mouthpieces, especially if you make a flute from river cane, is the mouthpiece the same size like the rest of the cane, or did you make it some way smaller? Thanks a lot for your great videos, keep going. Regards Philipp

Maybe if you don't make the air track but use a peace of concave material for the block it would work

So I've been really puzzled lately trying to figure out the sound hole. Then it hit me like a hornet to the forehead that you cut the two sound holes on each side of the center rib that's left in there that you leave so the air goes up and across. Man I'm no flute builder by any means but I believe this is going to help . Great video

They should do a woodworker vs meatcutter "cutoff" if you will... see who gets more nicks!!

Hello there! Great video 👍. Iam a Spanish dude living in Sweden and i really like to make my own native Americans flute. What wood do you recommend me and what size is the most comment one because I know there are different size for just any instrument, just look at the strings instrument from violin to doble base 😊. In Sweden we don’t have the bamboo type of wood if that is maby the best option of wood you would recommend me? Hope to hear from you soon. Keep on with your yt videos 😃👍🪈

Like the button.😄

I'm sorry, I can't understand English very well, I'm using a translate. can I please know how long is the bamboo flute and which is the right tone? I have tried many times sounds is very good to listen but is not the right tone sadly

is it hollow all the way through? Cool video - If you make the flute using a flint or something NOT robot made, it would be magical. This is also really cool, thus it has robots involved in the story of making.

Aqui é dificil achar taboca para fazer uma flauta pífano e o único bambu que tem por aqui que poderia fazer uma flauta daria para fazer uma flauta Shakurashi uma típica flauta Japonesa.

Just noticed the homage to Bob Ross, lol!!! Greatness. I had no idea about those stink bugs, yuck.

Oi urso azul tudo jóia com você que esteja tudo bem contigo.

Joyfull.....we're is my pocket knife