Making a Native American Flute With Only a Knife and Natural Materials
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- This is not the first video we have released using old methods of flute making, but as a refresher here it is again. Let us know what types of videos you would like to see! Visit us at www.bluebearfl...
I love the Bob Ross pin! I still enjoy his vids! Lets go out into the happy forest and take a happy little piece of river cane and sit down by a happy little pond and make a happy little flute with our happy little pocket knife and listen to all of the happy little frogs that live here sing their happy little song!
Your comment makes me happy Mark!
BlueBear is the best guy when it comes to native american flutes.
Thanks! You're appreciated
I think the bug is what we also call an assassin bug, but can't tell without a close up look. My master's degree was in Entomology. This has been a very fascinating look into what the Native Americans did to make flutes without modern tools. I was really curious about how they made the sound hole. Charlie, your videos are always so educational. Love my googol flute that I received about a week ago. Thanks.
I was born on a large farm in Western Pennsylvania three miles from the West Virginia border. Two distinct sounds lulled me to sleep each night from my birth to the time left the farm at the age of 21 when I moved back to London to stay with my mother and after that to Oslo, Norway where I joined the service. Those were the sound of the great, large air blowers hauling oxygen deep underground to the Robena number three mine a few miles from the farm. The blower looked like a giant megaphone laid on its side in the middle of a field at the mine site. The sound might be called loud but not in the way of a horn or clanking machinery; it was more of a whooshing sound that was actually comforting to listen to as I fell asleep. The other sound was what you described made by large and tiny frogs of all types chirping, chattering in chorus along with other creatures including all kinds of insects like crickets, locusts and more. These two “noises” were the symphony that helped me to sleep each night. I heard this sound so long in my life that to this day I still hear them inwardly down here in Texas where I live now. But these sounds are echos of the past and not here in reality where I live in suburban Dallas. My mind calls them up some difficult nights when I need them to calm my PTSD which often rises up to pester me with bad memories of combat and more horrors that I experienced when I was in the Norwegian Jaegerkommandoen and sent into Serbia and Croatia in the early 1990’s in an attempt to put a stop to the ethnic cleansing of innocent people including children by Serbian army regulars. The farm is long gone now and those gentle ghosts of my family are also gone but they are with me often at night as they bend, sigh, laugh, and cry in my dreams. These sounds and early memories help me to fight off those terrors and atrocities of war. Thank you for helping me remember this today as I watch your excellent flute making video. I have access to a stand of mature bamboo on my property that I am going to use to attempt flute making that you have inspired me to try. The world right now is so filled with unpleasant noise and bad-hearted meanness. I am a musician having played guitar since I was five years old and one of the degrees I earned after the service is in music theory. I still play guitar though arthritis limits my speed and facility on the instrument so I am going to try the flute: That is if I can make a couple of them that sound good and in tune. I am not entirely confident that this will be the case. 🤣 Thanks again. I subscribed to your channel and will tell others who might be interested in the subject. Also, sorry for any typos or unfortunate auto-corrects. I type fast and inaccurately and am loathe to go back and look for mistakes. Great channel. Peace and happiness to you and yours from an old, wounded, haunted and reluctant warrior.
Thank you kindly my friend! Please keep me posted on your progress of your flute making journey and email me through my website if you have any questions or needs. It is absolutely wonderful hearing from you! Thinking of going to visit Norway soon myself! There is always peace, too my friend. You just helped me with it this morning! Thank you thank you, and through our hundreds of videos I hope you find your own flute making endeavors!
Back again after several years. My first flute just cracked. Have a piece of bamboo that’s been drying for a few years now that’s ready to go. Thank you for being a continuous source of knowledge!
Thank you for coming back!!!
Your Grandfather must have been a very wise and wonderful man .with great story's and knowledge .stay blessed
To the dismay of some, I was fortunate enough to have some very wise family!
@@BlueBearFlutes your an Amazing man .Love watching your videos im just new to you and your beautiful instruments .can't wait to buy one
Hey Charlie, thanks for your great work on my Scarab totem!! Love your work.
I am so glad you liked it! Thanks for watching this video.😀
I'm very impressed, and motivated! Thank you for your video. I'm going to take this and enhance my fire time. ✊🤠🤙
Also - it's 3:30 in the morning, why did I decide NOW is the best time to learn this?? Lol
This is awesome. There is a rivercane break on a creek where I like to fish. I will be giving this a try this spring if I can find any large enough. There is a lot there that is perfect for arrow shafts, but the big pieces are few and far between for some reason.Thank you.
As always, be careful! And good luck! Thanks for watching!
Great video dude! thx for sharin it with us!
@@mymythology8799 thanks for watching! Please be sure to share this video with everybody you know and check out my other hundreds of videos!
@@BlueBearFlutes I ll for sure
Perfect,guy! Love it. Thanks very much for that brilliant idea. Great.
Thank you!
I have watched alot of vids on this subject and for me yours is the most entertaining and imformative of all the ones I've watched. Thank you for these and keep them coming.
Certainly one of my favorite TH-cam comments to date! Thank you for watching my friend!
I love the spring peepers they are one of the sounds I eagerly await every year as they are a sure sign of coming spring.
Same
Thank you for sharing, Brother 🤟🇨🇦
@@tamarabuxton2516 🙏🏼😊🙏🏼
@@BlueBearFlutes * and teacher 🙏
Love this thank you.. you are still a very talented person and inspired me to get better with my flute
@user-ui5qq2vs3b 🙏🏼Thank you!🙏🏼 Keep a lookout for my next video, it's going to be very interesting! 😀👍
Nice vid! Its cool that you can go out into the woods and find stuff to make a musical instrument out of
Wait till you see the the video coming up where I make flutes out of things not so natural! 😁
Ah the good old gerber paraframe.
I love mine had one for years.
Still do
Thank you for this outstanding instructional video. I have viewed a few of your others where you are working in your shop. From those I can see that you are a master of your craft, yet you take the time to demonstrate the simpler older methods and show that a very similar end product can be achieved using those methods as well. Beyond that, you encourage us to try to make one of these flutes ourselves, and ensure us that we would be quite likely to succeed if we tried. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us who are interested in Native American culture. I recently became aware of your efforts via the channel of Far North Bushcraft and Survival, where Lonnie has made instructional videos on Native American flute making as well. I appreciate how you, in the same manner as Lonnie are willing to provide these clear instructional videos for everyone's benefit.
Thanks for checking us out my friend! I appreciate your kind words!
Beautiful video very relaxing to watch thanks.
Thank you!
I learned a lot from you and not only about flutes but about life too...
I know I can always make a flute anywhere ...
That was very interesting.
Please be sure to check out my hundreds of other videos on making and playing Native American flutes! Thanks so much for watching!
Very cool thank you!
I have another video where I hand carve a hardwood flute which is coming soon! Be sure to subscribe so you get to see it! Thanks for watching!
Thank you mate.
@beardyuk7458 You're very welcome my friend! I do have other videos like this one that you might be interested in.
I can just watch this video again and again. I could even just sit there with you guys in the cold and keep practicing how to make a flute with just a pocket knife. This video is my impetus to go, get a bamboo cane and start making a flute. Thank you for this beautiful and informative video. I'll definitely subscribe.
Glad you like it! We have lots of others and even more on the way!
@@BlueBearFlutes I'll check your videos. Thanks :)
Today I learned 2 things: how to make a flute out of river cane & that bedbugs can dissolve your heart. Time to burn the whole house down now.
You are wearing the Bob Ross pin... And to be honest, this video was very Bob Ross-esque. My wife was like "when did Bib Ross make flutes?" This is a super huge compliment in our household. I'm new to your channel, and I am hoping to purchase a flute from you soon. I had a flute when I was a child. One day it went missing. My mother told me, "When an instrument or stone (I used to collect a lot of drums and a lot if stones like Lapis and Tiger's Eye, among others) goes missing, it is because your time with it is done, and it has returned to the Universe to be gifted to another who has need of its healing properties." I thought that was a beautiful way to see it. I'm nervous about buying a new flute now that I am 41, but I feel like it is time. I am so glad I have discovered your channel and your social media and your website. You will hear from me soon, I hope.
You will do great! This is the easiest instrument in the entire world to learn how to play. Thank you so very much for the kind compliment. When I was just a little older than you, I began to study French. And these days cependant, je m'en sors plutôt bien. So, you're never too old!
Great video. I really appreciate the how-to videos that use minimal tools. You are a great teacher and very talented craftsman. Thanks for the vids.
Thanks Brian! Many many more to come!
Intelligent keep up the good work. Thumbs up Charlie
Thanks so much Jo! Keep watching for some very cool new videos coming out soon!😁
Very impressive and of course ‘ Not too Shabby at All’
You are an Artist and Expert at your Craft.
Bob. Athens. GA
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." ~Thomas Jefferson
Thanks for watching my friend!
Thank you very much dear friend. Very cool, i go make my instrument now too here in Brazil, see you later. Bye gratifull
Thank you for watching! Please check out my other videos!
Totally loved it. I am chilean, we have a form of bamboo that could serve to try this. Love your channel, thanks for sharing!
This is the most amazing content thank you brother for this
Thank you for watching my friend! Don't forget we have countless other videos! Please be sure to subscribe and share!
This is so cool, Thank you for sharing.
thank you i like learning
You bet dude! Thank you for watching!
@@BlueBearFlutes im gonna try and make one now wish me luck
@@sluggysworld469 be careful!
awesome vid charlie , great tips
billy joe
Thanks so much Billy! Wait until you see the next videos we have coming out!
Gracias saludos desde colombia
Si, de nada hermano! Gracias por ver. No olvide suscribirse.
You are the Bob Ross of wood works and fluits
Very inspiring! I really like these minimalist videos.
More to come my friend!
Thanks for this video. Very inspiring. Soon its going to be spring here in Finland and i will go to forest to make some flute experiments. 😆
Be sure to check out my hundreds of other videos! And subscribe! 🙂 Thank you for watching!
Just wonderful...Thank you Charlie!!
Thank you so much for watching my friend! Some other really great new videos coming soon!
Love your Bob Ross badge cleaver artist, just as your also a great flute maker
I'm always looking for ways to connect with my ancestors, and making an instrument sounds really hard, but I love challenges.
You can do it! We have lots of videos from simple to very complex, and I would suggest starting with our PVC 4-hole whistle. It's one of my favorites!
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@@andrewprahst I try, but I also dont want to intrude in areas that I might not be welcomed. Which is understandable. So i tend to stick to more private studies and education.
@@whateverlol2767 Go outside, enjoy what our Mother Earth has to offer. Hop that fence or find conservation areas set up by your local representatives. Otherwise you will never fully understand what natural beauty grows all around you and worse yet if you choose not to you'll be letting others imprison your own true nature. Love&Peace to you friend 🧘♂️ 💚🌏☯️
Divines smile on you friend
Thank you.
You bet my friend! Thanks for watching! Don't forget to check out our hundreds of other videos and subscribe because we have new ones coming out today!
@@BlueBearFlutes I've followed your channel. Thanks for all these tips and stuff. Your videos makes me peaceful. One day I'm gonna make my own one maybe.
I Loved this video! Thank you.
I love making native flutes! I wish I could get ahold of some of that stock you are using! LOL Not here where I live in Canada...darn!:) Cheers and thank you for keeping a wonderful tradition alive and well!:)
Your video certainly demonstrates that it is entirely possible to make a flute without a lot of fancy tools. But you do need to know exactly what you’re doing. It is very impressive you were able to eyeball the finger hole placements and get it to play in a recognizable scale. Great video and I enjoyed the commentary along the way.
Very beautiful
Thanks for this
Thanks for watching! Be sure to subscribe and share!
I have loved the Native American flute for a while. I need to see about making one so that I can learn how to play it
We have lots of videos on that!
Thanks so much 🙏
Thank you for the video and demonstration. -David
Siple Amazing!
You are a great!
Greeting from north west Italy.
Dario
Thanks so much Dario! Look for more cool videos coming soon!😁
oh yeahhh! i made a cherokee whistle out of some elderberry it plays and has some tuning issues but it's the first one i kept and didn't snap thank you for these videos and the links you shared to me .
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Thanks a lot🙏
That's so cool!!! Thank you so much it made my day!
Hi, this video is beautiful. Thank you
But don't you season the cane before processing it?
That piece was of an old lot. You should check out some of my other videos on making flutes with river cane.
@@BlueBearFlutes Ok I certainly will.
Thanks a lot for your great videos, man.
Alessio from Italy
Awesome
Thank you sir... thank you for sharing you acknowledge and wisdom
Hey Charlie,you have a new old friend----me‼️My name is Leonard " Rascsl " Barnett, I am 69 year's old and I discovered you by accident but I am so happy I did.I gave contacted you before but thought I would let you know how interested in what you do,I have 7 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren and I want to make them each a Native American Flute using bamboo that is plentyfull in Western Kentucky and Southern Indiana,so you will be hearing from me more.I want to order a flute from you later on,but I can't right now because it is so close to Christmas and I am retired and don't have a lot of money to spare right now.I love the teachings that you use as you work on your flutes,like the sounds of frog's,that I to love and the night sound's I love too.I will be ordering at least one of your books.Thank you so much for your kindness and teaching us something worthwhile,I only hope I can learn to play the Native American Flute when I get my hands on one.
Thank You Charlie,
Rascal
Thank you spiritual brother.
Gracias Charlie, lo que haces es como magia ... y mi navaja sigue sin filo...jajaja
¡gracias mi amigo! este cuchillo suele ser aburrido! 😂
The Bob Ross of flute making! 💜
pretty cool
Hey Charlie! I'm a new viewer of your videos, but I adore them! This was very nice to listen to, hearing your stories and local knowledge while I learn (reminds me of my own father lol). You're incredibly skilled and I appreciate the work you put into your videos for all of us!
And I just realized you're down here in the same state I am! Maybe that's why all your videos gave me such a homey feel :)
Thank you so much again!
Very cool 🪶
Thanks for watching! Remember I do have hundreds of other similar videos you might enjoy!
Im from louisiana, we hear everything making a noise here, a lot of bulfrogs, the gators sound like a bull making a low grouwling sound and the babies make a sqeeking sound like a bird, then mama gator will hear baby and come real fast, a flute can be an alert noise for help but the music is better.thanks going to bed with the chickens (means early), love the louisiana noise, it all stops when danger approaches like a storm, everything takes shelter.we are Choctaw, but from North West Louisiana, Shreveport /bossier, barksdale air force base, thanks .
We are choctaw
@brendarueda8460 In that case, hey cousin! I too grew up listening to the sound of alligators and have raised many of them from the time they hatched! (we had a couple of them over for dinner last week!) I will be posting a video very very very soon where you can see what it sounds like when one of them sings! Thanks so much for watching!
i bought a native flute from the Andes and some others from there as well its different from your flutes but i did the same thing i copied the flute onto pvc but i changed hole sizes and the last finger hole and in the end theres a piece that is a choke i made the hole in the choke bigger with all them changes and no way to tune it it is my favorite flute of any i am interested in your flute with this air hole block thing instead of the notch i play now i will provably buy your book
Fantastic video Charlie, thanks! ;) #Heart
When I make futes with just a knife, I use a lighter to burn off the little fibers. The lake behind you is a beautiful color.
Thanks for watching! I usually don't use just a knife to make flutes because we have too many of them to make these days! It was a lot of fun making this one however! I did consider using some nearby rocks or something else to smooth the fibers on however I didn't bring a lighter with me.😁
Do you create other spacings of holes, other than a minor pentatonic scale? Maybe a Major pentatonic? There are many differing kinds of 5 note scales, depending on your purpose. Curious. Love this video. Do you use the name ''Bear'', as well, sir? My great, great grandmother's name was ''Bear''. She hailed originally from the northern latitudes of Norway - the Sami people. I never met her; just a stoic B&W portrait of a transplanted indigenous woman. I wish I'd met her. She became Anglicized - a ''good'' christian woman that, still, this side of the family ignored for generations, in memory. This saddens me. Did you notice at 'Standing Rock' a few years ago, when the tribes came together - as prophesy, in protest, gathered 'round the sacred fire - its 'vortex' reaching to the heavens (shaman) - 3 Sami women from Sweden or Norway, came to join this spiritual gathering. They came dressed in full, colorful dress, and were warmly welcomed. I'm a drummer/musician who loves Native music and rhythms, and other forms of music. I'm living in Fairfield, Iowa - home of about 2,000 practitioners of Transcendental Meditation. Does river cane also grow in the midwest? Is that Bob Ross on your button? Each late summer I greatly look forward to the collective sounds of tree frogs and crickets. You're right-on, the rhythms are varied and in 'surround sound'. I like to call these sounds, the ''summer sleigh bells''. . . one of the most mesmerizingly tranquil sounds in nature. To sleep at night with the window ajar is wondrously healing. Rhizomes - such as ginger, etc. I cook with ginger. Thanks, man. Love your Bob Ross voice and natural wisdom. The finished sounds and tuning of your handmade flute is perfection. On my 'virtual' keyboard, I've got a B minor pentatonic mode. btw - I also listen to 'classical' Indian flute music called Ghandarva-ved music. Some of these masters are astonishing.
frogs, crickets, cicadas all part of the symphony day and night here in Texas. It would be weird without them.
Hello there! Great video 👍. Iam a Spanish dude living in Sweden and i really like to make my own native Americans flute. What wood do you recommend me and what size is the most comment one because I know there are different size for just any instrument, just look at the strings instrument from violin to doble base 😊. In Sweden we don’t have the bamboo type of wood if that is maby the best option of wood you would recommend me?
Hope to hear from you soon. Keep on with your yt videos 😃👍🪈
Hi, thank you my friend for your kind words! Historically these instruments were usually between 1/2 inch and 5/8 of an inch in diameter. There were some of varying sizes outside of that however those were the common. I do have hundreds of other videos which will help you with more information as well. Please let me know if you need anything else!
@@BlueBearFlutes ok good to know :) the length don’t mather much? 45cm maby? What is the Measurement of the 5 finger position? I probably need to translate that to cm. Can you give me the link we’re you go true that please 🙏
@JosesGarage101 hey my friend, I'm sorry if I misled you. The length does matter however as far as what materials you can find in a certain diameter, that's a good place to start. Best place to find out other sizes would be from my TH-cam channel or my book. th-cam.com/users/bluebearflutes or bluebearflutes.com
Hi Charlie. I got today from a friend 2 bamboo tubes long ones but iam not sure what type of va ok it is but it seems to me that it is a bamboo for pan flutes.
I’ve send you a pm on fb. Have a nice 👍 😊
I doubt you will see this comment considering this video was released quite some time ago but I recently found out that I have Ottawa in my ancestry and the Ottawa was adopted into the Cherokee tribe after the smallpox epidemic due to dwindling population numbers. However, I was always interested in Native American flutes long before I knew anything about my Native American ancestry. I can remember growing up that my dad would make "cane" poles for fishing for us kids and I am assuming it was made from this same river cane stuff but I can't remember the last time that I've ever seen any here. I live in Eastern Kentucky so I don't know if it just stopped growing here or if I just don't know what I'm looking for. I'm looking into getting a nice Native American flute at some point in time but right now I lack funds and this seems like a great way to possibly start. Is there anything I should look out for when searching for the river cane?
There is definitely a lot you should look out for! Especially snakes and spiders! Aside from that, be sure to check out my video on collecting River cane and other materials. 🙂
Thanks for watching Bobby!
@@BlueBearFlutes a smart guy would probably just buy a flute from you and I will, eventually, but living on a budget means I need to try something free out first, lol.
@@klown83 In my earlier years, I certainly would have (and did) started out the same way for the same reason! 🙂
Always enjoy your videos. Can one use that invasive bamboo for flutes? It grows everywhere along the Tule here.
Absolutely! You can make flutes out of just about anything and especially invasive species! :)
hehe great and not too shabby :D
Thank you so much my friend!
Was not expecting bamboo in that forest!
It's actually indigenous river cane. They are related however.
Thumbs up for the Bob Ross pin =D
БОЛЬШОЕ СПАСИБО. ВЫ ПОСЕЯЛИ В МЕНЯ УВЕРЕННОСТЬ
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Please .. is there a natural rigid wall/node between the 2 hole chambers?
I mean .. I need to remove all natural bamboo nodes BUT this one between the sound holes? Is that correct ?
Yup. If you have any doubts, I have lots of other videos on the subject.
Классные!
спасибо!
This is great!! I've been wanting to make one and now I see that I actually can...and I will. You are right, it will be very soon.....like tomorrow!! Thank you for sharing!!
💜💕🌷 p.s. why do you put your hand up in the end. Hoping you don't mind my curiosity.
LilyMarlaina
Just my way of saying goodbye! Thanks again for your kind words!
So I've been really puzzled lately trying to figure out the sound hole. Then it hit me like a hornet to the forehead that you cut the two sound holes on each side of the center rib that's left in there that you leave so the air goes up and across. Man I'm no flute builder by any means but I believe this is going to help . Great video
Hey thanks, but I have about 5 or 6 videos on doing that alone that may help you even more!
@@BlueBearFlutes Thank you. Man i love your videos. I'm going to get there eventually just have to get over these dumb worms.😁
Can you make one with hardwood? I live in Indiana where there’s not really any river cane.
Hey, that's actually the next video on my list. There is however tons of river cane/bamboo in your area!
34:12 amazing !
Thanks!
G'day Charlie. Have you tried not making a flat area for the track and using a piece of cane sanded to suit the round of the cane, and shaping the block? Did that make sense?
It's funny you mention that Tom! I was actually thinking of doing it for this particular flute build and right up until the point that I made that flat area, was still considering it. One of my good friends Billy makes all of his flutes like that and another good friend Will makes quite a few of them the same way. They are both old school Creek Indian Flute makers.
BlueBearFlutes. I came to that thought after wrecking a few pieces of Bamboo. In frustration I made a flute without making a flat area for the track . It is the best flute I have ever made.
@@tomcartmill401 the main reason I decided not to is that it's difficult to drill a nice clean round hole with a pocket knife for the sound hole for that or even a square one through such a thick area of cane. Maybe next time my friend!
Kudos the cameraman sacrificed himself to the mosquitoes for this masterpiece 🙏🏻
Hy, Greetings from Switzerland, I am a huge Fan of Native american culture, I want make a native american flute by myself, but there is something I still not understand, maybe you made a video about this already, but how look like the mouthpieces, especially if you make a flute from river cane, is the mouthpiece the same size like the rest of the cane, or did you make it some way smaller?
Thanks a lot for your great videos, keep going.
Regards
Philipp
Hey Phillip, that is a great idea for a video. I have made tutorial videos on how to play River cane flutes with large open mouth pieces versus wooden flutes with small mouth pieces. Having said this a video showing the difference between the two is a great idea! Thank you so much for watching and keep looking for new videos coming out soon!
@@BlueBearFlutes Hey Charlie, thanks for the fast answer, So I will look for the videos you mentioned, and of course for all of your new Videos, I am looking forward to all new videos you will make. Keep going, you make great art.
Greetings from Switzerland
@@philipptanglmayer9148 thank you my friend and of course you are always welcome to email me with questions too.
I tried this and it only makes noise when i cover all the holes or all of them but one.
@Timmaaaaaaaaaaaaay I have hundreds of videos to help you perfect your flute. I would suggest my videos "the secret of flute making" and "flute track specifics" among others to help out.
Charlie... Where did u get that button????
Where are you able to find cane stalks growing in nature?
Actually having lived all over the U.S. and part of Mexico, there are few places that I was unable to find it! It's just a matter of looking coupled with knowing what to look for. 🙂
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Love the sound of frogs and crickets at night. Moose rutting , in close proximity to camp...not so much...
⚠️⚠️⚠️I looked it up: According to the MVMD Pest Control's Bulletin #14, The Kissing Bug/Masked Warrior (Conenose) Bug is an entirely different bug, *not* the adult of bedbugs. (Although there *is* one variety, Triatoma sanguis, that is commonly known “Big Bed Bug.” )
Also, *all varieties* of the Conenose family can & do deficate on you when they bite, and *all can cause Chagas disease* :
"While scratching the wound, the victim may
contaminate his/her hand with infected feces and rub
trypanosomes into the wound or later rub an open sore,
the eyes, mouth, nose, or other mucous membrane.
Initial symptoms of Chagas’ Disease are swelling of the
eyelids and face, and a fever, usually accompanied by
conjunctivitis (eye infection). The disease can become
chronic. Years after initial infection, the nerves of the
heart, colon, and intestines may be damaged. The
victim may die from heart failure or from blood
poisoning caused by months of being unable to
defecate due to paralysis of the colon and intestines."
⚠️Realises she was bitten by these decades ago, while living next door to a swamp in NC. At first, in reading all this, I was hoping the extreme coctail of antibiotics given for an infection after surgery might have wiped out that threat. But *it's not bacteria - it's a parasite* which can only be treated with
antiparasitic medications, such as benznidazole or nifurtimox.
Sighhh...Great... Alright boys & girls, what is the standard response to bringing up a non-standard issue with your doctor?🙄
Ok, I just learned that in the US, if you give blood, they will test your blood for Chagas. Interestingly, multiple tests are done because no one test consistently catches all infections. Hope all that helps!
PS ❤Love your video!
@AG-yj1jv I appreciate you posting that! It's good to hear information from different sides. I have spoke to officials with regards to this insect and have gotten a response that I made. I'm glad to see the one that you posted as well!
Thanks for replying! I just added that folks who think they've been infected can go to give blood & it will be bested for chaggas.
I'm going to do that tomorrow - today, I'm going down to my friends house to cut some bamboo. I know where there is river cane but it's a riskier area, so bamboo it is - wish me luck!@@BlueBearFlutes
Unbelievable that someone would abandon a property because you can hear nature. But then again, stupid is what stupid does. Good that they leave it to those of us that can appreciate it!!🌷
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is it hollow all the way through? Cool video - If you make the flute using a flint or something NOT robot made, it would be magical. This is also really cool, thus it has robots involved in the story of making.
Please check out many of our other videos on flute making (and subscribe?) so you can find the complexities of that partition area. It's quite important and not all the way through.
I did record a video where I used a flint and I wore a headdress too but you can only see that one in a vision or a special stone, not your phone! (no robots)
@@BlueBearFlutes I freaking love you. Thanks! Yea the mouth to mouth method is difficult in this time. Free the earth with beautiful sounds, love, trees and animals. (Our Library have a pc, my only robot is the clock on my oven)
You got a subscriber my friend.
I'm sorry, I can't understand English very well, I'm using a translate. can I please know how long is the bamboo flute and which is the right tone? I have tried many times sounds is very good to listen but is not the right tone sadly
I have other videos on the specific measurements and tones. It depends on the size of the bamboo. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help.
@@BlueBearFlutes The flutes are about 40 cm long, the width of the hole to support the mouth is about 1.30 cm-2 cm.
@@BlueBearFlutes and 5 central holes more or less about 7 mm
@@BlueBearFlutes thank you!
@@BlueBearFlutes And the sound is good to hear, but is stoned, there is a scale. And the sound isn't airy as I thought..
Maybe if you don't make the air track but use a peace of concave material for the block it would work
It does, that is what time was talking about in his comment. It is just easier to do that with more modern tools than a pocket knife. I will be making a video on that subject this week.
while skipping around i landed on the part where you said "The old ones carry a bacterea that desolv your heart" and i nearly shit. i though you were talking about the bamboo! i spent the day with my mouth on old bamboo making flutes D:
Not "old ones", but rather "kissing bugs" (masked hunters, the mother of bedbugs).
Aqui é dificil achar taboca para fazer uma flauta pífano e o único bambu que tem por aqui que poderia fazer uma flauta daria para fazer uma flauta Shakurashi uma típica flauta Japonesa.
A cana-de-Arundo donax cresce em todo lugar!
@@BlueBearFlutes mesmo assim aqui em minha cidade o que mais tem é bambu que poderia ser usado para a flauta shakuhashi e esse tipo de material que você descreveu é um pouco difícil de por aqui.
A much smaller blade might be helpful
@@jonathanwesselman1575 😂