Flutes & Gender Roles with Dan Jerome

I started making the fluid about a little over 30 years ago when the when it was really coming back into being it wasn’t it wasn’t very popular yet no musical in no music tapes out there weren’t any tapes out yet there wasn’t anything written about it except they you know they had a picture of one but and then oh yeah and that in that book she explained how to make how they made him in the old days from here to here was a hand from this second hole over here was another hand to this hole first hole and then is that a finger a thumb roll a finger and another hand you see that’s how and of course you knew that all fruits would be differently because the hands are the same for each individual person so when we started making them we asked different people who would be coming down to a particular event and later want to give you any information because they were I don’t know they were just oh I didn’t want to share you know normally A to B and I share that probably wives I share mine with everybody I could ever give one to but anyway for example my little girl was going through these Amherst University of Massachusetts and I called her one time and I said I just finished a couple flutes would you like to have what I’m gonna send you one that’s how I put it and she said she was silent and I said what’s wrong we just had Karla snake high from the southwest over here and he said I teach anybody in the audience how to play the flute except of women and so he gave her the idea that women don’t even touch the flute it was a man and I’m gonna let you touch ah but I said he how did you did he play for the audience for money she said yes we paid him did he how did he travel he go by horse and horseback no I don’t know I mention a couple of other things you mean he broke all those other traditions and once you not to touch the flute I said he’s ridiculous and he is his beautiful musician but he doesn’t culture changes and so she even made one she’s got a food over there that she gave me doesn’t she made a flute and but asking another person he says the only thing he told me was this hole should be 1/8 of an inch no bigger that’s the only thing he told me he was from New York yes that’s a little bit more than both of these are little more than an eighth of an inch but I mean that’s the kind of type of information they would give you I don’t know whether they were not confidence in themselves or whether they didn’t want to share but it doesn’t seem like all most of the Indian people that I knew well shared and this is my daughter’s fluid [Applause] and put it back [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] that’s playing from here and plays out of place pieces why [Applause] [Applause] [Music]