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I agree, I find pretty much all the sideblown music to be a bit breathy. Maybe you're not listening to the masters, then (and take note in the following how crazy-long some of his phrasing is; that's just a good embouchure making a lot out of a little, as I said before): https://www.youtube.com/wat...

FWIW, I have a couple friends (one Cherokee and one Lakota) who both prefer the term Indian, but anymore there are enough people from the country called India that it can be confusing if not prefixed with American. I had several conversations with a Lakota man a few years ago, and he preferred the ...

According to your chart, the Anasazi is a pentatonic major scale, not minor, so anything notated for NAF will not work even remotely. Notes are notes so you might be able to play certain NAF songs on the Anasazi but the fingering will be completely different. Thanks, that's one of the things I need...

Your Anasazi will actually play a few different scales; major pentatonic, akebono, a different minor pentatonic than your NAF, and a couple more. None of them will sound like your NAF minor pentatonic. That's what I was thinking. Blame me for taking the road less traveled. :pint: Scott also has out...

AuLoS303 wrote: How do you even play those? Regular flute embouchure is tricky enough...

It sure ain't easy. I'm still getting the hang of it. If you want to learn, the best bet is a skype lesson from Scott August.

There's also lots of helpful material on YouTube,but Scott's personal lesson helped me a lot.

If it's in a different key to yours, it should be OK to play the same finger holes, (it will just be in a different key to that which it is written), but if you have a different note layout, that's another kettle of fish. :) (You might need/want to transpose the tunes for your particular flute.) Ye...

On the advice of Geoffrey Ellis, who made my Basketmaker flute, I use Clapham's Beeswax Polish.

Scott August has an excellent video on how to buy an Anasazi flute. Many of the principles should apply to a standard NAF as well.

I have Scott August's excellent book, The Complete Guide to the Native American Style Flute . If you want to know everything about how to play the NAF, this is a must read. I'm still working through it, but one thing I don't yet understand is how to apply this knowledge to my Anasazi/Basketmaker sty...

It comes out pretty much everywhere I think :-) Having said that, the embouchure hole is primary. I say this based upon making recordings of the flute in my studio and the microphone tells the story. Also, watch any flute player on stage in front of a mic and notice where the mic is relative to the...

Sold. And joyfully acquired. It arrived today, in absolutely pristine condition, thanks to your more than excellent packing. This is an amazingly beautiful flute, in appearance, workmanship, and of course, sound. The embouchure is a bit different from my Geoffrey Ellis, so I'm still getting used to...

Google suggests it may be a Khlui , a vertical duct flute from Thailand. It has a fipple, so it's related to whistles in that regard. The six holes suggest a diatonic scale of some sort. If you have a tuner, or can get a tuner app on your phone, you might test what notes it's actually playing and se...

I have an Irish pub band, with whom I play mandolin, bodhran, and sing. We had a gig on Thursday the 14th, and three each Saturday and Sunday. Had a lot of fun, drank a few (yes, only a few) pints of Guinness and a dram or two. Took the day after off work (as usual) and rested up. I may be getting t...

Good point Steve, and yet many of their "villages" are named Pueblo something, often something Spanish. I had a Lakota friend once who preferred to be called "Indian" rather than "Native American," so I guess there is a lot of variation. It also occurred to me the other...

Like the Fujara, there are similarities and differences. The Moseño in the video is larger than mine, and the blow pipe is proportionally longer. In addition, I see a key near the end. Mine has no key. Perhaps just individual variants, I don't know. On mine, the place where you blow is on the same s...