Thank you for sharing you love of native flutes! I'm new to them but gain confidence thru this channel's insights and information. Have a wonderful week! ✌

Please keep up the videos! Love the vibe and information.

Hi Charlie, I am enjoying my googol flute in the key of G. Thanks for all the information about flutes that you share. I have learned a lot of things about flutes that I never knew I didn't know. 🥰

Very good information. I appreciate all you do, and your willingness to help other’s solve problems that they may encounter with their flutes.

Thanks Charlie 👍You had mentioned this in another video and I 'treated' my old cedar flute inside and out with olive oil. This is another reason my 1st flute is near and dear to my heart. It's white 3/4 PVC, made by another unregistered Cherokee biker who's ancestors also refused to sign the Dawes role. Call me Mr Tangent... Anyway, that PVC flute is indestructible! It rides in the car with temperature extremes. I've sat in Oklahoma lakes, playing music to the fish, (Great time for We N De Ya Ho song) It rides in the saddlebag of my motorcycle a lot too... If you have any suggestions on coloring or decorating PVC flutes, I'd love it.

Thanks for sharing this essential information. I am really looking forward to my F# flute arriving here in the UK!

I can take my flute on my sail boat and leave it outside all year. I can use it to stir a bucket of sea water with soap in it. I can use it for a door stop or accidently drive over it or use it as a wheel chock if I wanted to keep a truck or car or boat trailer from rolling. How;. I made my own flute out of PVC. THE TONES ARE near as perfect as possible. There is so little distortion in any weather condition or moisture conditions I never have to consider water. Actually sometimes I run the flute in water.

Hi your flutes are awsome and beautiful. i love American Indian music and the flute is very calming. What is the best to make the flute for most easy songs A F or G. I am from South Africa and my wife also want a flute so i have to make two.

Love your videos, still trying to play but after a month still sounding like crap hahaha. Work in progress 🙃

Greetings from Romania, Charlie! Thank you for all the good and full of soul videos and lessons, thank you for speaking “too much”! Please, I have some questions that I asked even on the site. I hope you will find some time to answer me. Do you think that water can cause the wobbling sound? I have a drone flute, and I’m starting to hear this sound when I play the flute (most noticeable when all the fingers are up). I don’t really understand how to play the third mysterious hole (mine has 5). I know from your videos that you just have to put your fingers on the first and third holes on the 5 hole flute and that this will reproduce the sound of a six hole flute’s third hole. But when you have tabs with various combinations together with that hole like: only the holes 1&2 covered and the rest uncovered. Or the 1&2&4 covered and all others uncovered. Can you play these 6 hole flute tabs on a 5? How? I only ask these questions because I got some books and most of them are for a modern 6 hole flute. When the third is uncovered, in any situation and combination I do that 1&3, or I adjust that to the tab and maybe add some more fingers if requested? Please, please help me with these questions.

I have a question that I hope you can answer. The slow air chamber on the NA flutes is very different in design to fipples on European whistles (similar to on your Cherokee 4 hole flute) . What kind of effects does this different design have on sound, playability, overblowing, etc?

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Hi my duduk has water damage. Split in center. Condensation can seep out. Suggestions to repair it?

You should get a mic 😁✌❤

This should be titled Effects, not Affects.