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Re: More (OT) Fun . . . *Pic*
By:Spidey
Date: 2/23/2001, 12:43 am
In Response To: Try Doing *This* with Staples . . . (OT) *Pic* (Spidey)

What do you do to relax when you're kayaking and coasting in a mangrove swamp . . . (Sorry Nick, last OT post for a while . . .) How about playing a flute?

I found this neat flute building site, and just like kayaks, you can't build just one . . . They take less than an hour build, if you make a nice one, 10 minutes if you aren't concerned with esthetics. The finished product sounds great, about as good as it gets since we're talking about a simple column of air. It takes a few days to learn how to get nice tones if you've never done it before - like me.

A good starting web page is given below. The picture shows my 3 finished flutes and a piccolo under construction. CPVC is used, cost per flute is about $1.50 . . . Cool stuff, and the other canoers/kayakers floating in your pond will probably be jealous . . . :)

Enjoy, Spidey

Flute Building Site

Messages In This Thread

Try Doing *This* with Staples . . . (OT) *Pic*
Spidey -- 2/21/2001, 10:27 pm
Re: More (OT) Fun . . . *Pic*
Spidey -- 2/23/2001, 12:43 am
try a cedar flute (OT) *Pic*
Dean Trexel -- 2/23/2001, 11:00 am
Re: Those are beautiful!
Spidey -- 2/23/2001, 11:36 am
Native American cedar flute diagram (OT) *Pic*
Dean Trexel -- 2/23/2001, 8:59 pm
Re: Thanks for the Drawing
Spidey -- 2/24/2001, 12:35 am
Cedar flute instructions (1 of 2) *Pic*
Dean Trexel -- 2/27/2001, 7:35 pm
Re: Cedar flute instructions (2 of 2) *Pic*
Dean Trexel -- 2/27/2001, 7:42 pm
Re: Cedar flute instructions (2 of 2)
daren -- 2/27/2001, 10:59 pm
Re: Cedar flute instructions (2 of 2)
Rehd -- 2/28/2001, 12:34 am
Re: Cedar flute instructions (2 of 2)
Rehd -- 2/28/2001, 12:47 am
Re: Cedar flute instructions (2 of 2)
daren -- 2/28/2001, 9:20 am
Re: right url
daren -- 3/2/2001, 8:22 pm
URL error file not found at execpc *NM*
john doerter -- 3/2/2001, 10:24 am
Re: Chiff, Fipple, & Embouchure
Spidey -- 2/28/2001, 12:23 am
Re: Thanks!
Spidey -- 2/27/2001, 7:57 pm
Re: Yeh, Yeh...Me Too Dean :) O.T.
Rehd -- 2/27/2001, 8:22 pm
Welcome.......
Ken Sutherland -- 2/24/2001, 7:54 pm
Re: FBBS? :)
Spidey -- 2/25/2001, 12:24 am
Re: FBBS? :)
Ken Sutherland -- 2/25/2001, 6:50 pm
FBBS
john doerter -- 2/27/2001, 2:43 am
Re: Renaissance People
Brent Curtis -- 2/23/2001, 6:43 pm
Re: can get very ornate *NM* *Pic*
Dean Trexel -- 2/23/2001, 11:18 am
Doh!
Pete Rudie -- 2/23/2001, 1:41 am
Re: More (OT) Fun . . .
daren -- 2/23/2001, 1:19 am
Re: Try Doing *This* with Staples . . . (OT)
Ken Sarkozy -- 2/22/2001, 12:31 pm
Iit CAN be done with staples
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/22/2001, 3:05 am