How to
Make Your Own Flute

Craft Manuals, Books & Videos

Shakuhachi Flute

Elmer Takeo Kudo
KINKO SHAKUHACHI: One Maker's Approach

Monty H. Levenson
STALKING THE WILD BORE: A Trek Into the Heart of Shakuhachi Darkness

Carl Abbott
Blowing Zen: One Breath, One Mind

Monty H. Levenson
The Japanese Shakuhachi Flute: Notes on the Craft & Construction

Native North American Flutes

Lew Paxton Price
Secrets of the Flute: The Physics, Math and Design of the Non-Mechanical Folk Flute
More Secret of the Flute
The Oldest Magic

HOW TO MAKE NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN FLUTES - 9 Volume Set
Native North American Flutes

Creating & Using the North American Love Flute
Creating & Using Grandfather's Flute
Creating & Using Older Native American Flutes
Creating & Using the North American Concert Flute
Creating & Using Larger Native American Flutes
Creating & Using the Largest Native American Flutes
Creating & Using Smaller Native American Flutes
Creating & Using Very Small Native American Flutes

Lee Lacroix
CRAFTING YOUR OWN NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE Video

Don Rivaldo
HOW TO MAKE A NATIVE AMERICAN STYLE FLUTE: A Video Guide on CD

Flute Making & Insturment Building In Gerneral

Bart Hopkin
Air Columns & Tone Holes
Musical Instrument Design: Practical Information for Instrument Making

Mark Shepard
Flutecraft: An Artisan's Guide to Bamboo Flutemaking
Simple Flutes: Play Them, Make Them
How to Love Your Flute

John Edfors
Woodwind Instruments from PVC

Vintage Instruments from PVC
Folk Woodwinds from PVC

Trevor Robinson
The Amateur Wind Instrument Maker


Books on Bamboo

Nancy Moore Bess
Bamboo in Japan

David Farrelly
The Book of Bamboo

Christine Recht & Max F. Wetterwald
Bamboos

Books on Flutes and Traditional Music

William P. Malm
TRADITIONAL JAPANESE MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
(Revised Edition)

Bob Fink
Neanderthal Flute: Oldest Known Musical Instrument Plays Do, Re, Mi Scale 


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