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

Thursday, 7 June 2012



So I've had a bit of a break from Blogging. But I've continued to make flutes.

I got a question a while ago if I could make a smaller flute, -that a young/smaller person could play.
The same day I went home and made a small flute. It ended up being a 30 cm long flute with 5 holes. It's tuned in minor pentatonic and has a beautiful high tone. I'm really happy with it and my two boys loves to play it too.

Then I had a thought about making a flute with diatonic tuning. (Major tuning) Whenever I make a flute, I want to use it for a specific purpose. I really LOVE the wooden sound that my flutes makes and with a diatonic flute, I can play a wider range of music.  (I'm planning to make a CD soon with all my new flutes)

I found out after a few days of research that it's really hard to get the holes in right place. I had some idea where to put the holes, but it is VERY different from a minor pentatonic scale.
It's the bore size, plus the thickness of the walls etc that determines were they should go. So with my mind set up that I could stuff it up, I began to drill the holes. VOILA. I did it! Holes done and are in the right place.

Now the tuning. Apparently you have to make an increase to the bore a 1/4 up the bore.(from the end) Otherwise the second octave becomes sharp. Well. I didn't. So the top octave on my beautiful  E major flute is VERY sharp. Well. I guess it wasn't too bad for my first attempt. Next one WILL be perfect where all the octaves are in tune. ;-)

Next flute I'm making is an ancient Indian tuning. I'm SO excited! Wish me luck.
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