FLUTE and MUSIC BOOKS

by Lew Paxton Price

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THE OLDEST MAGIC - Copyright 1995
Almost everything anyone ever wanted to know about musical scales, modes, keys, language, prehistory, folk flutes, and the uses of music and its influence upon our society since ancient times. Included are instructions for making various types of ancient flutes. This book is an aid to satisfying the most insatiable of curiosities in regard to music and music theory, as well as a means of exposing one to facts that have been kept from the general public through the years.
ISBN 0917578104
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SECRETS OF THE FLUTE - Copyright 1991
Covers the physics, math, and design of non-mechanical flutes and the non-mechanical part of mechanical flutes. This is original work and the subject material is not available from other sources at this time. It is ideal for the teaching of the musical science of flutes and other woodwinds, for use by professional flute designers, and for hobbyists.
ISBN 0917578082
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MORE SECRETS OF THE FLUTE - Copyright 1997
The sequel to Secrets of the Flute above, this book tells more about flute physics and math. The result of six more years of flute research, combined with the book above, this book allows the flutemaker to design the most extreme examples of flutes with accuracy, and is ideal for those who wish to have a total comprehension of the flute.
ISBN 0917578171
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NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN FLUTES - Copyright 1990
This is a small book on the flutes of the North American Indian, covering such things as their flute types, uses, evolution, religious connotations, etc. Original work, representing a year's research by a flutemaker/mathematician.
ISBN 0917578074
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THE CREATING AND USING SERIES

1. CREATING AND USING THE NATIVE AMERICAN LOVE FLUTE - Copyright 1994
Tells how to design, craft, play, and pray the Native American Love Flutes of the more popular current varieties. This book is the foundation upon which the other books in the series are based and was originally written to be sufficient unto itself. Although the other books in this series allow one to expand his or her knowledge of flutemaking, they are not sufficient without having read this book first.
ISBN 0917578090
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2. CREATING AND USING GRANDFATHER'S FLUTE - Copyright 1995
The second book in the Love Flute series. Tells how to create and use one of the varieties of older flutes, gives tables and graphs to aid in optimizing and creating more varieties of new and old Native American flutes, and explains more about the creation and use of the Native American flute. The particular type of older flute featured here will not choke up from moisture as do the most of the contemporary types of native flutes, and its playing quality is unsurpassed. Furthermore, it is ideal for creating flutes from materials such as heat-treated bamboo which has a natural beauty of its own.
ISBN 0917578112
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3. CREATING AND USING OLDER NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTES - Copyright 1995
The third book in the love flute series. The older Native American flutes used tuning holes in the last stages of their creation. This book tells how to create and use flutes with tuning holes, how to compute and use equivalent diameters, gives tables and graphs on flutes with tuning holes, and tells more about the use of the flute.
ISBN 0917578139
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4. CREATING AND USING SMALLER NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTES - Copyright 1995
The fourth book in the love flute series. Tells the advantages of and how to create and use smaller Native American flutes, provides tables and graphs for creating smaller flutes, tells the nature of nodal interference and how to eliminate it, includes a chapter on ways to improve the appearance of any flute, and includes some philosophical comments.
ISBN 0917578147
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5. CREATING AND USING LARGER NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTES - Copyright 1998
The fifth book in the love flute series. Tells the advantages of, and how to create and use, larger Native American flutes, provides tables and graphs for creating larger flutes, explains the difficulties of larger flute design and how to work with them, gives ways to vary flute length without seriously affecting the sound, and includes some philosophical comments.
ISBN 0917578198
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6. CREATING AND USING THE LARGEST NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTES - Copyright 1998
The sixth book in the love flute series. Tells the advantages of, and how to create and use, the largest Native American flutes, provides tables and graphs for creating them, explains the difficulties of large flute design and how to work with them, and includes some philosophical comments.
ISBN 0917578201
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7. CREATING AND USING VERY SMALL NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTES - Copyright 1998
The seventh book in the love flute series. Tells the advantages of and how to create and use the smallest feasible full-working Native American flutes, provides designs for creating them (up to G# two above middle C), explains the difficulties of tiny flute design and how to work with them, and includes some philosophical comments. Tiny flutes are, by far, the most challenging of all flutes to design and craft.
ISBN 0917578228
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8. CREATING AND USING THE NATIVE AMERICAN CONCERT FLUTE - Copyright 1996
The eighth book in the love flute series. This is the most advanced book in the series, describing how to make an optimized Native American style flute which has a moisture-removing mechanism and independent adjustments for sound quality, transition point, and temperature. Includes a chapter called "Greatest of Secrets" which has universal significance. This book is not recommended unless the student is already familiar with flutemaking.
ISBN 0917578163
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COMPUTER FLUTE DESIGN PROGRAM
Perhaps the most successful and convenient method for designing flutes is by computer. My computer design program was written by me and comes in three options. It allows one to tailor the flute to the individual and to complete several weeks of work in the space of less than ten minutes. The design program options for Native American flutes is made to be used in conjunction with the series above (particularly Creating and Using the Native American Love Flute) and/or the theory books.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Most book stores do not carry the above items because the demand for books on flutes is not sufficient to warrant stocking such things. You may find retailers who stock these items on-line. If you have difficulty finding any particular item, please go to my other website called Creations of Lew Paxton Price by clicking on
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RECOMMENDED NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE BOOKS
(Not sold here - See places to buy them below)

 

FLUTE MAGIC by Tim R. Crawford, edited by Dr. Kathleen Joyce-Grendahl, RainDance Publications.

Available from:

Windwalker
P O Box 946
Arch Cape, OR 97110

E-mail: tcarchcape@yahoo.com or

RainDance Publications
3351 Mintonville Point Drive
Suffolk, VA 23434

E-mail: RainDanceBooks@AOL.COM or INAFA@AOL.COM.
 

LEARNING MADE EASY by Neoka Falk, New World Publishing Company.

Available from:

New World Publishing Company
P O Box 530984
St. Petersburg, FL 33784.

Website: http://www.neoka.net
 

BENEATH THE RAVEN MOON by Mary Youngblood.

Available from:

The Oregon Flute Store
90944 Leashore Drive
Vida, Oregon 97488

Website: http://www.oregonflutestore.com

More about Mary: Mary Youngblood  

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