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These beautiful flutes are made from what is called "river
cane" or native bamboo.I harvest it locally,cure it,heat treat it and turn it into flutes.Flutes have been made from bamboo
for thousands of years and when done properly will last a very long time.I use the same design as my wooden and pvc flutes.
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In April of 1528, an expedition of 300 landed on the west coast of Florida. Only four ever survive to see what they would
call a civilized community. One of these, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca chronicles their trials. He writes:
We travelled without seeing any natives who would venture to await our coming up with them until the seventeenth day of
June, when a chief approached, borne on the back of another Indian, and covered with a painted deer-skin. A great many people
attended him, some walking in advance, playing on flutes of reed.
(pg. 26, "Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States
1528-1543", compiled by J. Franklin Jameson [1907], containing "The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca", edited by Frederick
W. Hodge
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In 1612, William Strachey writes of the Virginia colonies and the first peoples of the region:
The voyd tyme betweene their sleepe and meat, they commonly bestowe in reveling dauncing and singing, and in their kind
of Musique, and haue sundry Instrumentes for the same; they haue a kind of Cane, on which they pipe as on a Recorder and are
like the Greeke Pips which they call Bombices, being hardly to be sounded without great strayning of the breath, vpon which
they observe certain rude tunes, buth their chief Instruments are Rattles made of smale Gourdes or Pumpeon shells, of these
they haue Base, Tenor, Countortenor, Meane, and Treble, these mingled with their voices somtymes 20. or 30. togither makes
such a terrible howling as would rather affright then giue pleasure to any man.
(pg. 85, "The Historie of Travell into
Virginia Britania", by William Strachey [1612], Edited by Louis B. Wright and Virginia Freund [1953])
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