I began to make handcarved Native American Style Flutes in 2011, in Aromatic Western Red Cedar, which goes under the name of Dream Flutes.
All my flutes are tuned in Concert minor scale, but are meant to be played in the traditional pentatonic scale.

My flutes comes in a range from low Eb minor to high C minor. Low ranged flutes (F-Eb) are around 70 cm long and have a beautiful deep, rich tone. Middle range flutes(G-F) are around 60 cm and high ranged flutes(C-A) are ca 50 cm long.

I also love composing music and have done so since I was 11 years old.
With my new instruments I recorded the CD - Blue skies.
The Cd has eight calming, meditative tracks with the Native American Style Flute along with harp and sounds of the nature.
You can listen to them on :www.myspace.com/thereselowdin1

Monday, 30 January 2012

Turtle Carving


Well. My first attempt to carve a turtle for my Fetish. I made it in Western Red cedar. BUT - I discovered that Cedar wood is way too soft to make carvings. The wood splits when you try to carve in it with small chisels. Not a fun experience after a days work. So I was back to square one.

I looked around the shed for some other wood and lucky for me I found an old wood piece. (which fell on one of my sons head the other day- poor little one!) This wood was hard - I think it is Jarrah. It's amazing! So no more soft wood carvings for me!
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