Extremely helpful! Thank you for having so many informational videos, for everyone from beginners to experienced musicians, and everyone in between! Blessings

I love explaining to people that they don't have to leave a hole covered. I started my flute making journey on shakuhachi's so I was making native American flutes with 5 holes 20 years ago purely by instinct. I love your spirit Charlie. Lacquers are for slackers.

I am watching you from Turkey. You are a great teacher. Thank you for passing on what you know with all your kindness🙏🏻

Thank you so much for sharing, this has really helped with me getting started!

Having met Hawk Littlejohn in my earlier flute journeys, I am reminded of him. He was a great teacher, fabricator, artist and player. Nobody is exactly alike but sharing many traits and qualities, I am enjoying your videos.

I’m gaining a greater appreciation of the drone flute thanks to your videos.

I love your t-shirt!! And I have the backpacker drone flute which I am loving but still practicing .

Your sound is *wonderful *~Golden brown. ❤🐾💥🌟

Fantastic video! I love the backdrop/setting!!!!

I just got one of your flutes and I love it so much♥️♥️♥️♥️ this video really helped me

I’m starting to love the drone...🧙‍♂️🦅

incredibly mesmerising

Great video Charlie. Thank you for all you do! God Bless!

MUCH RESPECT Maestro

I have one of his backpacker drones in key of B, which I have owned for little more than a year. It is well made. I like the low profile design, which helps with transporting on my hikes as well on my bike. Has a nice tone and both sides are in tune (which is more than I can say for some of my other drones purchased elsewhere). Good little drone.

Much gratitude for your instructional videos on your drone flute techniques.A player of the traditional style . A new world of imagination has thrived since I've tried the white cedar # c I purchased nearly 10 months ago.Very satisfied and considering another drone in lower key#

Fantastic! (btw, -very much enjoying my A-scale flute from BlueBearFlutes! Best!)

Gracias Charlie

Love watching your videos. Articulation is how the instrumentalist would describe the technique and syllables used to starts of notes. Release is how the back sides of the note would be described. Maybe diction from a vocalist stand point.

The seperateing of the notes is called toungeing. I am pretty sure all wind intruments use it (flute, oboe, clarinet, sax, etc). And when you only tap on the first note, you do a slur. Starting and stopping it is double toungeing (da ka). There is also triple toungeing (ka da ka, ka da ka, etc) and flutter toungle (vibrate your throat simularly to gargleing. It creates a "fluttering" note)

My experience in music is built around choir singing and reading sheet music, but recently I've developed an interest in wind instruments. I'm not able to play a reed or lip-tip (trumpet) because of a life long jaw deformity. I toyed with the idea of mirliton instruments (vibrating disc like a kazoo), but that seems like cheating since the voice produces tone instead of the instrument - so instead I've decided on flutes. My inspiration is a wood train whistle with four tubes, each tube producing a different note. I've tried playing the tubes separately by covering the whistle ports at the head end, but the shape of the whistle body makes this difficult. The sound the four tubes produce together is pleasant, and the wood resounds smoothly as compared to metal or plastic. My likeness for this layered sound has led me to consider a drone flute, much like yours. I've also learned thru studying, that drone (two tube) flutes are a rarety, and usually custom made. So with that I decided to fashion my own, but didn't have a clue of how to tune one - so back to studying! Finally I've decided on a 4x3 hole pattern - the left tube (4 holes) tuned to B,C,E, and F, with the right tube (3 holes) tuned to A, D, and G. I'm still trying to work out if, and where, semitone holes shud be for each tube. The finished flute (hopefully) shud allow me to drone any note desired while fingering other notes in melody. I stumbled across your videos while studying others relating to hole positioning. Not only have I picked up pointers on tuning, but methods of play which I hadn't considered.. You are a credit to your craft, and an encouragement to viewers - thank you.

Charlie, I am curious as to what languages you speak. I love your videos, and am going to buy a drone flute around the first when I get paid.

Does the back hole need to stay covered at all times?

Mr Charlie are you planning on doing Pan Flautes (Zamponas)...I don't know a place here in the US that build legit and tuned pan flutes

Hi Charlie is this the A drone .

ah Man this sounds so sweet! How long is the shipping time to the UK?

Do you sell these?

I think Im blowing bad my flute because it doesn't sound like that