Thankyou so much! Tuning my flutes has been a rocky road. Have had a hard time conceptualising exactly how everything relates with each other, but this video just made perfect sense. You're a star :)
hi, thanx for the info. i started making bamboo flutes about 10 years ago, none of them were tuned. i managed to sell some of them but gave it up. i just came into a huge supply of bamboo and am thinking about getting into it again but this time i want to make tuned flutes. i really appreciate seeing that i can use a cell phone to tune them, a good quality electronic tuner is expensive. so this video has been very helpful. thanx again for sharing this knowledge.
hi again Charlie , the oxford dictionary says ENLARGE , and clearer is a definite word used a lot in England . hope that helps my friend ,I know most of the time we bastardise a lot of true olde English words for ease of vocalisation lol . cheers again for the video , always learn something new watching you , I love it .
@@BlueBearFlutes I think it can actually be either lol , depends on area of the country , your next ? Should be is it either or either (ether or ither )lol , still enjoying all your vids and chats even at my extended number of summers , lol (75) still enjoy playing the flute you made for me with a buffalo totem ,still sounds incredible and pleasing . Good luck and good fortune for your people , may I email you with a question about a person from the eastern Cherokee pre The Trail of TEARS
OK, I just finished making my first flute.that mouth piece is tricky.even thou I bought the piece to cut down n make it flat. I cut the two ends like u showed us n used my pocket knife at the end n it popped right off.then I used my pocket knives n put the holes n n then I used my metal files. I'm so excited.my first homemade flute .wow 58n now got another goal for when I can't clean houses anymore.
Thanks Charlie for sharing more specifics on tuning the Native American Flute....I will be purchasing the Flute Kit and your Flute booklet soon....Joseph
this flute making is challenging, this the only time I have worked with bamboo. Mine is super dry. It seems real tricky to get hole size, flute ID, length of pipe, square hole, burnt round hole, I'm grateful that it is relaxing,..... it getting better. I used to fall asleep watching Bob ? (the Painter)Bob?, anyway I found someone to look and listen to that is as good as he was. Thanks, will
+Will E. Lewis Thanks, I think? Ha Ha Ha! Hope I'm not boring enough to make you go to sleep :) Anyway, it is actually best to work with dry cane, but not so dry that it is powdery or rotten where it chips and cracks while you are trying to work with it. As for hole size, start small and make them larger when tuning. The holes don't have to be square, they can be round as that is how all of my flutes were made prior to about 10 years or so ago. Don't be afraid to test some theories and see what way works best for you. Thanks so much for watching and Happy Flute Making!
Thanks for taking the time to make all these videos, they are excellent and very informative. One thing I don’t understand is, before opening the holes to start tuning they are on the flat side. When you open them up they become more sharp but the one that was too sharp to start with you still opened it up to get it back to flat. I thought that if you open the hole up too much it becomes too sharp and needs filling in a bit. Hope this makes sense?
Hello, I carved my first flute in C#. When I open the first hole, a nice perfect F# came out. How I tune the other holes. plz can you help me? greetings from Germany Christian
Hey my friend. I know you use both a phone app tuner and a Korg tuner, but which do you like using better? I know with other apps, the microphone doesn't always picup some stuff. I've also noticed a difference between my phone app and my actual guitar tuner, but my guitar tuner doesn't do cents and the flute seems to freak it out. Lol
That's true and the guitar tuner does better probably with vibrations than sound. To be honest with you though, I don't particularly like tuners at all. Both of mine you mentioned function perfectly but the fact that we want these to be in a specific key still bothers me. There was a time when I didn't sell flutes in precise keys. I hope to go back to that one day.
@BlueBearFlutes lol, yeah I know you are necessarily fond of tuning to specific keys. I don't blame you, cause I completely understand why. I also want to get a traditional tuned one too. The only reason I'm wanting a couple of specific keys is for playing some particular songs, and I don't want to get tin whistles or a transitional " silver " flute. The tone of the wood or something about it just adds something for me, just unlike anything else. So I wouldn’t mind getting a few in specific keys, but for playing on its own, some traditional tuned as well because they have their own sound.
Hi Mr. Charly Mateo, I built a Native American Flute tuned in F Mayor Pentatonic six holes and I would like to ask you, If I put some wood hardener (Lacquer Paint) in the splittin edge.. If it can be possible.......?? I write you from Dominican Rep.
My flute seems to play f# open even after cutting about half an inch off. Should I cut more off to get it to a? Thanks for videos. Hope I get it ready to play soon.
More than likely it needs to be cut off. If you would like oh, you can actually send me a picture of it first. Please contact me through my website. Thanks again for watching! 🙂
the flute sound opening the video ...sounds great! that's exactly the type of a flute (and octave position) I am looking for.. Is that particular flute available to buy from you? thanx!
We do have a few videos on our Channel for how to tune flutes. If you would like, feel free to email a picture of your flute and I will be glad to do what I can to help. Thanks for watching.
I've been meaning to make a video on how to take care of that. There are couple of options. One way would be to insert a plug of sorts into the fingering and drill it out smaller, or possibly offset the plug within the area of the fingering so it allows you to center the new fingering hole where it needs to be. Most importantly, if it is only 20 or 30 cents sharp, cover the inside of the fingering with super glue and fill it in with sawdust, then re-burn or re-dril the hole.
Hey Micah, thanks for your question. We do have some nice D flutes on our website. You can listen to sound samples of all of our flutes on the info page of our website at www.bluebearflutes.com
i am a Yorkshire English man and i do not speak the queens English i speak Yorkshire only people down south speak the queens English queens there is a lot more better places in England than London
Unless you would like to reply with a timestamp, I'll see when I have 21 minutes to go back and re-watch a 9-year-old video! 🤣 If you do reply however I'll certainly be glad to explain myself. Chances are, you won't. 😅
@Starwalka Listening? Really yonega? How's about that time stamp? Or did you "accidentally" miss the first part of my reply? We'll get into symantecs next go around.
@Starwalka I want to make sure that you understand that I am not making fun of you. I am calling you ignorant based on its definition. I previously asked you to give me a timestamp because I don't usually have time to sit and re-watch my 9 year old videos to prove the validity of three words that I pointed out therein. Be sure to read to the bottom of this comment because there are some helpful hints in here for you for the future. First of all, I was referring to how the British consider America their colony. Likewise they refer to us as colonists. In saying that, I also stated that we are not all colonists here. That should be enough for any intelligent person to figure out the rest, but for you I'm going to add some to this. I AM NOT A COLONIST. I am also not a yonega like yourself. Now for the help you need. In order to Be an Effective Troll, it is important to have more than one subscriber and absolutely zero content! Also when you attack someone, be careful not to attack an intelligent person. If you make this mistake, best never to reply again. And finally, regardless of the feeling that you are a martyr in my wake, rest assured that I am not fighting with you. You are just not a very good troll. Good luck on your next attempt.
I bought a couple of flutes from you oh 10 years ago. They are still in perfect shape. And still play beautiful.
Thanks! Glad to hear from you!
Thankyou so much! Tuning my flutes has been a rocky road. Have had a hard time conceptualising exactly how everything relates with each other, but this video just made perfect sense. You're a star :)
Thank you so much for watching! Don't forget we have hundreds of other videos on making and playing Native American flutes!
hi, thanx for the info. i started making bamboo flutes about 10 years ago, none of them were tuned. i managed to sell some of them but gave it up. i just came into a huge supply of bamboo and am thinking about getting into it again but this time i want to make tuned flutes. i really appreciate seeing that i can use a cell phone to tune them, a good quality electronic tuner is expensive. so this video has been very helpful. thanx again for sharing this knowledge.
You bet my friend! Please be sure to check out my hundreds of other videos on Native American flute making!
Thanks! It's always a Good Day when learn a couple of things.
hi again Charlie , the oxford dictionary says ENLARGE , and clearer is a definite word used a lot in England . hope that helps my friend ,I know most of the time we bastardise a lot of true olde English words for ease of vocalisation lol . cheers again for the video , always learn something new watching you , I love it .
Hey, also, is it bastardise or bastardize? 😄
@@BlueBearFlutes I think it can actually be either lol , depends on area of the country , your next ? Should be is it either or either (ether or ither )lol , still enjoying all your vids and chats even at my extended number of summers , lol (75) still enjoy playing the flute you made for me with a buffalo totem ,still sounds incredible and pleasing . Good luck and good fortune for your people , may I email you with a question about a person from the eastern Cherokee pre The Trail of TEARS
@@KEITHPARRIS2949 of course! 😄
OK, I just finished making my first flute.that mouth piece is tricky.even thou I bought the piece to cut down n make it flat. I cut the two ends like u showed us n used my pocket knife at the end n it popped right off.then I used my pocket knives n put the holes n n then I used my metal files. I'm so excited.my first homemade flute .wow 58n now got another goal for when I can't clean houses anymore.
Excellent! Keep up the good work, and be careful!
Thanks for the tuning video I tune my walking stick it took about an hour but I got it right now it's my favourite toy
That is most excellent my friend! We would love to see it in our Facebook group: bluebearflutes!
A really great video. Thanks for showing how to do this in such detail. Much appreciated!!
+XoshBitt Thank you for watching! I am happy to help!
I like your video's so much I will be ordering a dozen or so of your flute kits, in mid December 2014 , thanks from timothy
Thanks Charlie for sharing more specifics on tuning the Native American Flute....I will be purchasing the Flute Kit and your Flute booklet soon....Joseph
Joseph Garduque Thanks Joseph. Sent you an email this a.m.
I have learned a lot from these vids. Thanks
Большое спасибо. Всё понятно и доступно👍
this flute making is challenging, this the only time I have worked with bamboo. Mine is super dry. It seems real tricky to get hole size, flute ID, length of pipe, square hole, burnt round hole, I'm grateful that it is relaxing,..... it getting better. I used to fall asleep watching Bob ? (the Painter)Bob?, anyway I found someone to look and listen to that is as good as he was. Thanks, will
+Will E. Lewis Thanks, I think? Ha Ha Ha! Hope I'm not boring enough to make you go to sleep :) Anyway, it is actually best to work with dry cane, but not so dry that it is powdery or rotten where it chips and cracks while you are trying to work with it. As for hole size, start small and make them larger when tuning. The holes don't have to be square, they can be round as that is how all of my flutes were made prior to about 10 years or so ago. Don't be afraid to test some theories and see what way works best for you. Thanks so much for watching and Happy Flute Making!
I love that burning tool. :)
Yep :)
Thanks for taking the time to make all these videos, they are excellent and very informative. One thing I don’t understand is, before opening the holes to start tuning they are on the flat side. When you open them up they become more sharp but the one that was too sharp to start with you still opened it up to get it back to flat. I thought that if you open the hole up too much it becomes too sharp and needs filling in a bit. Hope this makes sense?
Thanks. Nice video and good info.
Hello, I carved my first flute in C#. When I open the first hole, a nice perfect F# came out. How I tune the other holes. plz can you help me?
greetings from Germany
Christian
Great information, thank you. Do you just use steel rod from a hardware store? Like 1/4" and/or 5/16" or something?
You got it! I have a video on making them as well.
Hey my friend.
I know you use both a phone app tuner and a Korg tuner, but which do you like using better? I know with other apps, the microphone doesn't always picup some stuff. I've also noticed a difference between my phone app and my actual guitar tuner, but my guitar tuner doesn't do cents and the flute seems to freak it out. Lol
That's true and the guitar tuner does better probably with vibrations than sound. To be honest with you though, I don't particularly like tuners at all. Both of mine you mentioned function perfectly but the fact that we want these to be in a specific key still bothers me. There was a time when I didn't sell flutes in precise keys. I hope to go back to that one day.
@BlueBearFlutes lol, yeah I know you are necessarily fond of tuning to specific keys. I don't blame you, cause I completely understand why.
I also want to get a traditional tuned one too. The only reason I'm wanting a couple of specific keys is for playing some particular songs, and I don't want to get tin whistles or a transitional " silver " flute.
The tone of the wood or something about it just adds something for me, just unlike anything else.
So I wouldn’t mind getting a few in specific keys, but for playing on its own, some traditional tuned as well because they have their own sound.
Hi Mr. Charly Mateo, I built a Native American Flute tuned in F Mayor Pentatonic six holes and I would like to ask you, If I put some wood hardener (Lacquer Paint) in the splittin edge.. If it can be possible.......??
I write you from Dominican Rep.
Absolutely my friend! We actually use super glue for that same purpose. Hardening the splitting edge makes the flute sound so much better! 😁
My flute seems to play f# open even after cutting about half an inch off. Should I cut more off to get it to a?
Thanks for videos.
Hope I get it ready to play soon.
More than likely it needs to be cut off. If you would like oh, you can actually send me a picture of it first. Please contact me through my website. Thanks again for watching! 🙂
the flute sound opening the video ...sounds great! that's exactly the type of a flute (and octave position) I am looking for.. Is that particular flute available to buy from you? thanx!
which app of tuning do you use?
could you give the mesurments for A pentatonic scale?
Cheers from Greece!
how far apart do you put a hose on a five-hole flute
You NEVER mentioned what NOTE that last (top) hole was in this video... By watching the meter it "appeared" to be another "A" ... is that right ?
Yes.
If you had bamboo that was cracked all the way down one side. How would you glue it together?
Glue.
Muchas gracias por la enseñanza
I have used mahogany wood as a sounding board and Bamboo as a sounding board, and I have trouble getting tuned.....
We do have a few videos on our Channel for how to tune flutes. If you would like, feel free to email a picture of your flute and I will be glad to do what I can to help. Thanks for watching.
What do you do if you made the whole too big and its sharp?
I've been meaning to make a video on how to take care of that. There are couple of options. One way would be to insert a plug of sorts into the fingering and drill it out smaller, or possibly offset the plug within the area of the fingering so it allows you to center the new fingering hole where it needs to be. Most importantly, if it is only 20 or 30 cents sharp, cover the inside of the fingering with super glue and fill it in with sawdust, then re-burn or re-dril the hole.
Are these smaller love flutes at tuned at 440hz? Not possible to do in 432hz?
Anything is possible however I no longer offer 432 tuning.
@@BlueBearFlutes , do you mind if I ask why you no longer offer them in 432hz?
hey charlie just wondered if you can make custom key flute kits if you can how much do you think a bass d would cost
Hey Micah, thanks for your question. We do have some nice D flutes on our website. You can listen to sound samples of all of our flutes on the info page of our website at www.bluebearflutes.com
when are you putting the four hole flutes on your sight thanks
site haha
This week. Keep an eye out!
yyaaaayyy thanks!!
thanks!
Great video! How often do you have to do this? Seems kind of intensive if you have to tune daily.
Once tuned, that's it. It shouldn't ever need tuning again.
Is heating a metal beam on fire good enough?
It may work, it will just take longer. Also it is likely to be hotter on the other end so please use extreme caution.
hello how it is called the application that you use to tune the flute
It is called G strings
ok thanks
massa
Enlarge is a real word ;0)
i am a Yorkshire English man and i do not speak the queens English i speak Yorkshire only people down south speak the queens English queens there is a lot more better places in England than London
Some of who was from here ? Hope you ain’t referring to any Europeans
Unless you would like to reply with a timestamp, I'll see when I have 21 minutes to go back and re-watch a 9-year-old video! 🤣 If you do reply however I'll certainly be glad to explain myself. Chances are, you won't. 😅
Go ahead I’m listening I just never heard of the narrative of Europeans being here prior to Spaniards
@Starwalka Listening? Really yonega? How's about that time stamp? Or did you "accidentally" miss the first part of my reply? We'll get into symantecs next go around.
@@BlueBearFlutes you referring to Europeans being here prior to colonization that’s what you said I’m curious I’ve never heard that before
@Starwalka I want to make sure that you understand that I am not making fun of you. I am calling you ignorant based on its definition. I previously asked you to give me a timestamp because I don't usually have time to sit and re-watch my 9 year old videos to prove the validity of three words that I pointed out therein. Be sure to read to the bottom of this comment because there are some helpful hints in here for you for the future.
First of all, I was referring to how the British consider America their colony. Likewise they refer to us as colonists. In saying that, I also stated that we are not all colonists here. That should be enough for any intelligent person to figure out the rest, but for you I'm going to add some to this. I AM NOT A COLONIST. I am also not a yonega like yourself.
Now for the help you need. In order to Be an Effective Troll, it is important to have more than one subscriber and absolutely zero content! Also when you attack someone, be careful not to attack an intelligent person. If you make this mistake, best never to reply again. And finally, regardless of the feeling that you are a martyr in my wake, rest assured that I am not fighting with you. You are just not a very good troll. Good luck on your next attempt.