FluteTree.com features songs, history and info about Native American flutes
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Welcome to Flutetree.com
Description
I like to introduce myself by describing the Native American flute as a wonderful tree with many branches to explore, and I’m that squirrel jumping from branch to branch.
On a whim in 1996, I attended a solo performance of R. Carlos Nakai. Maybe that whim had something to do with my distant native ancestry through both my parents. Maybe it had something to do with spending three years as a child in Oklahoma at an impressionable age. Whatever the case, this concert marked the beginning my journey into the world of the flute.
Shortly afterwards, I purchased a flute at a local powwow. At the time, this flute was an awkward experience; not the sound that I heard in concert and recordings. I’ve since learned that even wall-hanger flutes can produce good music, but at that time I decided I could make a better flute than that first flute. This led me to learning how to make flutes. For the next few years, I toyed with both making flutes and making music. In 2000, I attended the “The Renaissance of the Native American Flute” (RNAF) outside of Helena, Montana, which introduced me to a growing community of flute players, makers, and future friends. In many ways at this workshop, R. Carlos Nakai, Ken Light, John Sarantos, and Kimble Howard didn’t as much teach how to play as they taught a way to approach playing. For the next year, not a day passed without picking up a flute and playing.
Contact
- Robert Gatliff
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- Pflugerville TX
- United States 78660
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- +1.5122521987
