I really appreciate your videos! I am a beginner flute player, I have admired Native flute playing for decades, but was too intimidated to play it myself. All these years later, my granddaughter gifted me her flute from a college class when I admired it, and so now I'm looking at your videos and am learning to play, much to my amazement and enjoyment. This is so awesome, so completely magical for me, and I'm so glad to have your resources to listen to. So grateful!
@8VV88 This is one of the greatest instruments in the world and certainly very fulfilling for beginner to learn how to play! If you haven't been there yet, please check out my website for flutes that we have on sale! bluebearflutes.com
Thank you 🙏🏼 for another great video, Charlie. Your sense of humor cracks me up! I love the air quotations around “flute instructor”…people can take themselves SO seriously. 😝
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and skills with us. I have learned a lot just by watching. Like the website too. Am in process of making my first flute, using knowledge acquired from you. Thank you again and may God continue to bless you and your family.
You are so kind and a light to the world and i am just finding my path to the native American flute, so thank you for helping me learn♡ I am struggling with a cancer diagnosis recently and am 56 years young,they say 'when the student is ready the teacher will appear'and here we are😊 I hope i am able to learn this beautiful sound and find my peace in the darkness around me. Blessings to you and yours always my brother Teresa
I really like that you shared how you feel about the Native American flute and how you make them. I am going tomorrow which will be December 11th, 2024 to play a cedar flute for a group of native people. I am a First Nation from Manitoba and really missed playing the flute. I hope someday I will be able to purchase one of your flutes. I wish you many great blessings in your journey. I also appreciate your video, take care….
I love native american flute because it's design is unique. The air chamber going through the tunnel hitting ths spot and this two chamber method is what I believe makes native american flute unique.
I know this video was posted a year ago, but it's new to me and I always enjoy and learn from your videos. Since you teach muggles, I guess I am a muggle. 😄
Just wanted you to know that I just received my drone & flute kit and is awesome, also want you to know that I value your teachings and the time you invest in passing on the wisdom you gained from your ancestors.. May God Bless you Sincerely; Luis Edgardo Encarnacion from Philadelphia PA
I have started, on my own, trying to connect with my cherokee heritage. Besides my great uncles, I have had to rely on people like you to learn. I have made several flutes since first watching your videos about a year ago. My kids, cousins, and I would like to thank you for all of your help in preserving these cultures. ᏩᏙ
I really like your videos Charlie. Good information along with some healthy sarcasm. I grew sunflowers this summer and plan to rewatch your video and try to make flutes from the stalks.
@DistantGlowingStar Thanks for your order! Our shipping times are on the shipping page on my website and if you have any questions or anything else that you need, please reply to the "thank you for your order" message or contact form on my website! You're greatly appreciated!
Thank You Charlie... it's been a while since I wrote, but still have many flute that you "taught" me how tp make. Some of them turned out really well, but others were my learning from my mistakes flutes. I appreciate your honesty about those matters, you are so kind not to trash others while still getting your point across. In the future, I will have more time to make more flutes. I am still learning from you, and still a fan! Ga li e li ga (I am thankful)
Well Charlie, it would have been good to know those things earlier (chuckle chuckle chuckle). Besides I like my six hole flute with the sixth hole above the fifth hole (no covered holes). All kidding aside, this is a great first video for people who have had little contact with your flutes Charlie. Thank you for sharing and not being one of those who charge fortune to teach. Tom
I just ordered a A flute, I have one by another maker, it’s a six hole but it’s a really nice flute nothing fancy but nice . Then I started watching your videos and you know what your talking about and I saw the video where another maker sent his to you to fix it. And it sounded great , so I ordered my 5 hole Mid range A made of cedar. Can’t wait to get it .
Hi Charlie, what like about my river cain flute that you made for me, is how easy it is to keep clean. Above all,…. Your flutes make the most sense. 🎅🏻
Hello, Charlie. I recently found you here, and it is because I found a piece of river cane one day and thought... How could this become a flute? I love listening to Native American flute music. And the Siksika blood in me brought the idea to my mind, figure out how to space the holes accurately and the track section. I thought about how the whistle works. I attempted to mimic it. Watching the videos is helpful. However, I am that guy who needs someone to interact with as I'm making errors to assist in preventing future errors. I'm more towards the bass sound of the flute. I, too, was in the band class in Jr High. The only way I could play drums was to play a brass instrument. I was forced to play trombone. I couldn't play it. It was too big (I was very tiny for a 12 yrs old), and my arms weren't long enough. Anyway, how can I make this flute the correct way with your guidance?
@BradWoodrow-rj9sq Hey Brad, that's a great and humbling question. I have made so many videos on how to make Native American flutes that usually when someone asks a specific question as to how to do this or how to do that, I simply send them a link to a video back but the general question of "how to make a flute out of your piece of river cane", I believe as a whole, I have answered at least 100 times in these videos. Please check out my channel and some of my making videos (there are about a dozen videos I'm making flutes out of cane) and let me know what questions you might have. Thank you again for watching and commenting!
Hi, Charlie. I figured out how to make tuning much faster for me. A friend gave me a 6 hole flute. I immediately put tape over the third hole down. The flute was badly out of tune, flat. When I started widening the first hole I realized that I was spending a lot of time, clumsily, being sure my fingers were completely covering the holes to check the note. So, I taped all the holes and removed the tape as I moved up the flute holes. This way I can be sure the tuning is correct. I hope this helps beginners like myself. I'm pretty sure you already know this technique. Michael
I can't wait to receive my flute. I'm glad I got the 5 hole flute so I don't have to hold one. :) I love your videos and your great service. I've tried the harmonica and I'm pretty good at it but the native american flute completely resonates with my soul and to finally find a flute makes me extremely happy. My question is what happens if that piece comes off and I can't tie it? Sorry, I'm new haha. Anyhow, thank you for you for being amazing!
Another great video. Thank you Charlie. Love the tshirt. Made me laugh. Will check out your instragram like you suggested. Your website is very helpful. Be well.
I have a key of E and I'm still having a hard time playing I start off on the lower note and go up and for some reason when I uncover Upper 2 notes I keep screeching it also very hard to find nature where I live so many cars and Mosquitoes.
@ChiTherapie I understand. Unfortunately it is easier for huge companies to bring us cheap imports than for small time artists to offer their works! Maybe that will change in the future, although I believe the future will be more like the movie "hunger games"!
One thing I wish I knew was, not to buy used on EBay!! Your flutes are so professional and the EBay looks okay, but sounds like a plastic children’s flute. 😢😢😢 Blue Bear Flutes are amazing at a great price point and FREE lessons and tricks on TH-cam. These flutes can be passed down to my grandkids. 🙏🏼 Thank you 🙏🏼
I have 2 gorgeous flutes, aromatic cedar. The low c seems fine. The f#, to me seems to have a slight "vibration"? Both made by same maker. The f# in question looks slightly different near the ? (Sorry, the open part). Not sure if this affects sound. Would have to show you. It's been bugging me. I emailed the maker but he seemed to to not really get it. Seems part is missing. Thank you, it's been a while, but I enjoy your videos.
Thanks for watching! Please email me a picture of them through my website. 1 picture of each with the block/totem tied on and 1 with it off. I'm sure it can be fixed!
Pipers fingering (I'm a bagpipes player) doesn't work for me very well, because the chanter of a bagpipes is really thin and the holes have a very different shape, speed is the key to a bagpipes so, flat fingers is the only way to go, not so much on the flute , also the way bagpipes work has nothing to do with flutes of whatever kind, so I am learning a new fingering, not very hard for a piper indeed, though, the biggest difference is that, pipes have no or little fingering expression, flutes have, it makes all the difference to express the emotion of a piece of music/soul. But trill notes are very natural to me (we call them "grace notes" or "embellishment). The major difficulty I meet, is that my pinky is tryinng to play a hole that doesn't exist:) but I feel confortable with the extra middle hole of my 6th holes flute compared to 5 holes ones, I wouldn't feel so confortable with . So if you are a bagpiper, give the flute a go guys, you'll feel quick at home without the need to spend 2 grand on the instrument. All the pipers I know, (here in Belgium) whatever the kind of pipes they play, love the Natives' flute, why ? Because it is related with our shared soul's Source, Celtic roots or Native American's one, one and the same. Great video. Merci mon Ami
Great insights Charlie, thanks for sharing. Since you threw it out there, I have a little problem with one of my flutes that you be able to diagnose. I have a western red cedar flute in D4 that I made a while back, and although I love the sound overall, it has a "dead note"....when I lift off the bottom hole for the F it sounds "dead". It's in tune but sounds somewhat muted....kinda reminds me of a "dead" guitar string, still tunes but just isn't "all there", if that makes any sense......any ideas?
Hey my friend, the best thing to do would be to send me a picture of the entire flute - fingerings up - so that I can see the length. It sounds like it may have a minor issue with the length versus placement of the fingerings.
@@BlueBearFlutes Thanks Charlie, I responded to the email but not sure if it went through, I sent the pics through messenger as well just to make sure. Thanks my friend...any help appreciated!
Thank you Charlie! From London, England 🇬🇧 ✨🪈✨💗✨🌍✨🙏🏼✨ Beginner here ✋🏼💚🪈💚🌳
I was just there two weeks ago!
I really appreciate your videos! I am a beginner flute player, I have admired Native flute playing for decades, but was too intimidated to play it myself. All these years later, my granddaughter gifted me her flute from a college class when I admired it, and so now I'm looking at your videos and am learning to play, much to my amazement and enjoyment. This is so awesome, so completely magical for me, and I'm so glad to have your resources to listen to. So grateful!
@@SharonCrowson 🙏🏼🙂🙏🏼 Thank you for watching! I have so many more videos on the way!! Be sure to subscribe.
I love your Approach What i got from this is no flute is the same all flutes are unique
Just like people! Thank you so much for your comment and for watching!
Thanks for informative video , watching in 2024 ❤
It will be a new instrument in my life, and I consider myself a beginner with it.
@8VV88 This is one of the greatest instruments in the world and certainly very fulfilling for beginner to learn how to play! If you haven't been there yet, please check out my website for flutes that we have on sale! bluebearflutes.com
Thank you 🙏🏼 for another great video, Charlie. Your sense of humor cracks me up! I love the air quotations around “flute instructor”…people can take themselves SO seriously. 😝
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts and skills with us. I have learned a lot just by watching.
Like the website too.
Am in process of making my first flute, using knowledge acquired from you.
Thank you again and may God continue to bless you and your family.
You are so kind and a light to the world and i am just finding my path to the native American flute, so thank you for helping me learn♡ I am struggling with a cancer diagnosis recently and am 56 years young,they say 'when the student is ready the teacher will appear'and here we are😊 I hope i am able to learn this beautiful sound and find my peace in the darkness around me. Blessings to you and yours always my brother
Teresa
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I really like that you shared how you feel about the Native American flute and how you make them. I am going tomorrow which will be December 11th, 2024 to play a cedar flute for a group of native people. I am a First Nation from Manitoba and really missed playing the flute. I hope someday I will be able to purchase one of your flutes. I wish you many great blessings in your journey. I also appreciate your video, take care….
Wonderful contribution for people who try to make and play their own instrument
I love native american flute because it's design is unique. The air chamber going through the tunnel hitting ths spot and this two chamber method is what I believe makes native american flute unique.
I know this video was posted a year ago, but it's new to me and I always enjoy and learn from your videos. Since you teach muggles, I guess I am a muggle. 😄
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Thanks for being so open minded! Love the tips.
Cant thank you enough Charlie for all you've done for me.
🙏🏼🙂🙏🏼
Thanks. I’m now binge watching your videos 🏴😆
Thank You!
Just wanted you to know that I just received my drone & flute kit and is awesome, also want you to know that I value your teachings and the time you invest in passing on the wisdom you gained from your ancestors..
May God Bless you
Sincerely; Luis Edgardo Encarnacion from Philadelphia PA
Thank you for your kind words Luis! I'm confident your kit will be built with wonderful results!
It is cool that you find this enriching and fulfilling!
@@JO091715 Coincidentally, so do millions of others! Thanks for watching!
I have started, on my own, trying to connect with my cherokee heritage. Besides my great uncles, I have had to rely on people like you to learn. I have made several flutes since first watching your videos about a year ago. My kids, cousins, and I would like to thank you for all of your help in preserving these cultures. ᏩᏙ
I'm hoping to share more in addition to flute making soon! Thank you so much for watching!
I really like your videos Charlie. Good information along with some healthy sarcasm.
I grew sunflowers this summer and plan to rewatch your video and try to make flutes from the stalks.
I do have a video making a flute out of a sunflower stalk! 😁
Great information, presented with good humour and no nonsense - Thank you!
Thanks , I have placed an order. Hope to receive them asap ...
@DistantGlowingStar Thanks for your order! Our shipping times are on the shipping page on my website and if you have any questions or anything else that you need, please reply to the "thank you for your order" message or contact form on my website! You're greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
@@noplace480 Thank you for watching!
Endorsing J.K. Rowling with that shirt 👌 subbed bro
I also endorse Scott brand toilet tissue, Fruit of the Loom underwear and Colgate mouthwash!
Thank You Charlie... it's been a while since I wrote, but still have many flute that you "taught" me how tp make. Some of them turned out really well, but others were my learning from my mistakes flutes. I appreciate your honesty about those matters, you are so kind not to trash others while still getting your point across. In the future, I will have more time to make more flutes. I am still learning from you, and still a fan! Ga li e li ga (I am thankful)
Well Charlie, it would have been good to know those things earlier (chuckle chuckle chuckle). Besides I like my six hole flute with the sixth hole above the fifth hole (no covered holes). All kidding aside, this is a great first video for people who have had little contact with your flutes Charlie. Thank you for sharing and not being one of those who charge fortune to teach. Tom
Thank you Charlie, from Boise ID.
@@MrBrady611 Be sure to check my other videos on making and playing Native American Flutes!
I just ordered a A flute, I have one by another maker, it’s a six hole but it’s a really nice flute nothing fancy but nice . Then I started watching your videos and you know what your talking about and I saw the video where another maker sent his to you to fix it.
And it sounded great , so I ordered my 5 hole Mid range A made of cedar. Can’t wait to get it .
I can't wait to hear how you like it! Thanks for your order and for your kind words!
Hi Charlie, what like about my river cain flute that you made for me, is how easy it is to keep clean. Above all,…. Your flutes make the most sense. 🎅🏻
🙏🙏Thank you! Thank you!🙏🙏
Your kind words are appreciated!
Hello, Charlie. I recently found you here, and it is because I found a piece of river cane one day and thought... How could this become a flute? I love listening to Native American flute music. And the Siksika blood in me brought the idea to my mind, figure out how to space the holes accurately and the track section. I thought about how the whistle works. I attempted to mimic it. Watching the videos is helpful. However, I am that guy who needs someone to interact with as I'm making errors to assist in preventing future errors. I'm more towards the bass sound of the flute. I, too, was in the band class in Jr High. The only way I could play drums was to play a brass instrument. I was forced to play trombone. I couldn't play it. It was too big (I was very tiny for a 12 yrs old), and my arms weren't long enough. Anyway, how can I make this flute the correct way with your guidance?
@BradWoodrow-rj9sq Hey Brad, that's a great and humbling question. I have made so many videos on how to make Native American flutes that usually when someone asks a specific question as to how to do this or how to do that, I simply send them a link to a video back but the general question of "how to make a flute out of your piece of river cane", I believe as a whole, I have answered at least 100 times in these videos. Please check out my channel and some of my making videos (there are about a dozen videos I'm making flutes out of cane) and let me know what questions you might have. Thank you again for watching and commenting!
Hi, Charlie. I figured out how to make tuning much faster for me. A friend gave me a 6 hole flute. I immediately put tape over the third hole down. The flute was badly out of tune, flat. When I started widening the first hole I realized that I was spending a lot of time, clumsily, being sure my fingers were completely covering the holes to check the note. So, I taped all the holes and removed the tape as I moved up the flute holes. This way I can be sure the tuning is correct. I hope this helps beginners like myself. I'm pretty sure you already know this technique. Michael
Thank you for your insights.
I can't wait to receive my flute. I'm glad I got the 5 hole flute so I don't have to hold one. :) I love your videos and your great service. I've tried the harmonica and I'm pretty good at it but the native american flute completely resonates with my soul and to finally find a flute makes me extremely happy. My question is what happens if that piece comes off and I can't tie it? Sorry, I'm new haha. Anyhow, thank you for you for being amazing!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and skills.
You bet my friend!
Thanks for all the great content ! That's the only thing anyone should say.
Thanks for sharing
Thank you for watching! Please check out some of my other videos on making and playing the Native American Flute!
Another great video. Thank you Charlie. Love the tshirt. Made me laugh. Will check out your instragram like you suggested. Your website is very helpful. Be well.
Thanks again my friend!
Thank you
❤ thank you for your guidance 🙏 🪶
You're so very welcome! Please be sure to check out my hundreds of other videos!
Great video Charlie well done! :) I always enjoy watching and learn something every time, thanks! #Heart
Thank you! Always great to hear from you my friend!
I have a key of E and I'm still having a hard time playing I start off on the lower note and go up and for some reason when I uncover Upper 2 notes I keep screeching it also very hard to find nature where I live so many cars and Mosquitoes.
@Redbeard_1 I too dislike the mosquitos! As for those top notes, please email me through my website so I can help out with that!
Love the video. Just started to play the NAF. It all makes sence what you say. Is therer a place in The Neherlands where i can buy your flutes?
My website bluebearflutes.com !
@@BlueBearFlutes I understand but buying from the US cost me double the price included the tax 🤗
@ChiTherapie I understand. Unfortunately it is easier for huge companies to bring us cheap imports than for small time artists to offer their works! Maybe that will change in the future, although I believe the future will be more like the movie "hunger games"!
One thing I wish I knew was, not to buy used on EBay!!
Your flutes are so professional and the EBay looks okay, but sounds like a plastic children’s flute. 😢😢😢 Blue Bear Flutes are amazing at a great price point and FREE lessons and tricks on TH-cam. These flutes can be passed down to my grandkids. 🙏🏼 Thank you 🙏🏼
I have 2 gorgeous flutes, aromatic cedar. The low c seems fine. The f#, to me seems to have a slight "vibration"? Both made by same maker. The f# in question looks slightly different near the ? (Sorry, the open part). Not sure if this affects sound. Would have to show you. It's been bugging me. I emailed the maker but he seemed to to not really get it. Seems part is missing.
Thank you, it's been a while, but I enjoy your videos.
Thanks for watching! Please email me a picture of them through my website. 1 picture of each with the block/totem tied on and 1 with it off. I'm sure it can be fixed!
Native People HAD glue made from animal hovers and also tree sap ( evergreen Conical trees ) .
Pipers fingering (I'm a bagpipes player) doesn't work for me very well, because the chanter of a bagpipes is really thin and the holes have a very different shape, speed is the key to a bagpipes so, flat fingers is the only way to go, not so much on the flute , also the way bagpipes work has nothing to do with flutes of whatever kind, so I am learning a new fingering, not very hard for a piper indeed, though, the biggest difference is that, pipes have no or little fingering expression, flutes have, it makes all the difference to express the emotion of a piece of music/soul. But trill notes are very natural to me (we call them "grace notes" or "embellishment). The major difficulty I meet, is that my pinky is tryinng to play a hole that doesn't exist:) but I feel confortable with the extra middle hole of my 6th holes flute compared to 5 holes ones, I wouldn't feel so confortable with . So if you are a bagpiper, give the flute a go guys, you'll feel quick at home without the need to spend 2 grand on the instrument. All the pipers I know, (here in Belgium) whatever the kind of pipes they play, love the Natives' flute, why ? Because it is related with our shared soul's Source, Celtic roots or Native American's one, one and the same. Great video. Merci mon Ami
LoL Charlie just keep putting it out there sir great stuff.
Oh and breathe dude lol
Think I stopped to take a breath last Tuesday!
Great insights Charlie, thanks for sharing.
Since you threw it out there, I have a little problem with one of my flutes that you be able to diagnose. I have a western red cedar flute in D4 that I made a while back, and although I love the sound overall, it has a "dead note"....when I lift off the bottom hole for the F it sounds "dead". It's in tune but sounds somewhat muted....kinda reminds me of a "dead" guitar string, still tunes but just isn't "all there", if that makes any sense......any ideas?
Hey my friend, the best thing to do would be to send me a picture of the entire flute - fingerings up - so that I can see the length. It sounds like it may have a minor issue with the length versus placement of the fingerings.
@@BlueBearFlutes Thanks Charlie, I responded to the email but not sure if it went through, I sent the pics through messenger as well just to make sure.
Thanks my friend...any help appreciated!
You crack me up 😂❤
That shirt though! Haha
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"You can put your mouth around it like a straw and look like a big doofus" lawl,
Legendary.
if you have to make yourself better by calling down others well, you may have work to do
@@dohjln the journey of a 1000 miles begins with one step, don't take any wooden nickels, and George whatever you do, don't cut down that apple tree!