Toning your Native American Flute

Video Transcript

"So this flute basically is an "A". It started out longer, here's a generic blank that I used for these flutes and I just used the "G" blank and then I cut it off and the more I cut off the higher the pitch goes until it's an "A" and that's how you tune the lowest note. Next, you can mark where the holes are going to go and basically just even spacing, equal distant from the top and the bottom of the flute will get you in the ballpark where you need to be. You can kind of get a sense of the dimensions here of how long the length of holes is in the middle of the flute. I never really measured it out because my flutes are so different from one another, but you'll get in the ballpark if you just kind of look at these flutes, equal distance from the top and bottom and with the line of holes in the middle and you'll get a sense of it this way. So just take your best guess and you'll get close. If your holes are a little bit too high you'll end up a little bit lower, they'll end up a little bit smaller. If the holes are too low on bore they'll end up a little bit bigger. But in each case the flute will play just fine."