Flute Making with Dan Jerome

Oh I was talking about the food this comes in two pieces grab that top flute for me Owen now this is the type of flute that here - probably seen a long time ago where I went into well we didn’t go into all we were in so we asked him if we could cut a branch off the makeup fluid so this is the branch that we cut from this but that’s the way they would have done that a long time ago go out to chisel to the woods and cut a piece of brass off a tree then they split it you see the split I split it and then they’d hollow two channels out this channel the flute Channel and the wind channel it’s solid right in the middle here and there’s a hole here that goes to up to here and goes to one of the holes and then out to what we call this is the bird and right here the piece of paper you see is a nest so then there’s a little channel between this first hole in the second hole the whistle holes and that’s how they then the music comes out of there no this who used to just you used to have six five holes and no jib well I had six holes and but most of the fluids that I see now has six holes but there were seven holes some of them and I have one with a hole here thumb hole they could have eight with another thumb hole there so but you wouldn’t see him at him different than eight holes five holes six holes I don’t think there were four holes I don’t believe they may have been [Music] then you just hollow this out and there this is the most important hole here these holes that’s the end of the flute this is the preferred or Gible way of making them with a solid here but they put some holes in here too big designate the end of the flute and these are the most important holes because this is where you tune it from c1 when I made this fluid it was probably this long then I play it and it didn’t sound quite to my ear or to bridge it there and we cut a little bit more of it and we kept cut this cut and then here we found these holes all pretty good sounding and see this is the this one plays all flat notes your musically inclined you know what a flat note is huh so this’ll play you can hear that coming off Flatiron say there was a little girl that this is I called her a little girl because she was in high school when I was over here and she’s still a little woman she came over to the house one time and she says I want to make a flute the old Indian way I said fine you go out to get a piece of wood like this from the from the wood area and you bring it back and she’s will split it we’ll split it right down the middle and then you go look for a jagged rock and then we’ll clean out those so and she looked at me said Oh that’ll take a long time won’t it and I said yes but she said how do you make them I put them on a router I said and I just router it takes about ten minutes once you get it set up it takes you longer to set the saw though the router up then and then to do the hollowing out of this