
Turtle Mound Flutes

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Turtle Mound Flutes makes a line of flutes from electrical conduit PVC. Although these look, play, and sound very much like a wooden Native American style flute, they lack the natural spirit that the Great Creator gives us in the wood or cane of a true Native American Flute. We make these flutes with the same care and attention to detail that we put into our wooden flutes, but distinguish them from our wooden Native American style flutes by calling them Knock-About Flutes. Our Knock-About Flutes (made from the branch of the rugged poly-vinyl tree) are ideal for the rough treatment of children, back-packing, kayaking, or just carrying around in the back seat or trunk of your car (where extreme temperatures can crack or otherwise damage a quality wooden flute). Each Knock-About Flute is individually crafted from heavy-duty “schedule 80” electrical conduit and carefully tuned to the indicated key. The walls are thick enough to allow the flattening a solid nest area with material left for the flue to be cut into the nest body, and to make a workable “ramp” at the “south” end of the True Sound Hole (TSH). This makes a “sound mechanism” that is identical to that of a wooden flute. We tune our Knock-About Flutes to the same rigid standards as our wooden flutes. In fact, as the PVC is more difficult to work than many woods, it actually takes longer to tune a Knock-About than a wooden flute. The result is a flute voice that is virtually indistinguishable from that of a wooden flute to most people. Each flute also has a hardwood wooden mouthpiece (cherry or walnut) to, not only more closely resemble the playing of a wooden flute, but also prevent you from having to put your lips directly onto the PVC. Each Knock-About Flute is made in the woodlands style (with the flue in the flute body) with a simple, low-profile eastern red cedar wooden fetish that is attached with deerskin laces. How durable are our Knock-About Flutes? Annette Abbondanza of Painted Raven passed along the following tale: I love the knockabout flute! It really got put to the endurance test… I just got back from hiking the Appalachian Trail in Georgia and took the flute along. It got soaking wet in the heavy rain that lasted 3 consecutive days, it got bumped around, it fell out of my pack and bounced on the hard rock…but after all that it still played beautifully at the top of Blood Mountain. (attached is a photo) Every once in a while a flute maker will get a photo of his flute being played in a unique environment. This photo was passed along to me by a member of the Indian River Flute Circle and it touched my heart. The young lady playing a Turtle Mound Flutes Knock-About Flute is Holly Findley, Midwife, in October 2012. Holly was a missionary with the International Aid Services in Nyinbuli Village, South Sudan. This is a great example of why the Knock-About Flutes are made so durable. We wish Holly safe keeping in her mission and many hours of enjoyment with her flute.
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