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..from Quena Flute making guide How to Tie / Bind your Flute Professionally Often this is the last stage of flute making... is optional but it'll definitely make your flute more authentic looking.. A good binding technique can help prevent bamboo flute from splitting. You can also use this technique to repair your cracked bamboo flute. Follow through my steps and do it slowly. You should be able to get a good and tight bind. Binding Steps: Step 1: Make a loop like this (btw this is the back of flute and its thumb hole) Step 2:  Hold the loop with your thumb Step 3: Start the winding.  Make sure each winding is tight and not overlapping each other. The yellow arrow shows the winding direction of my thread The red arrow shows the direction at which you should wind towards (towards the looped end) Step 4: Tying the ends   First, Yellow arrow..push the winding end of the thread through the loop Second, Red arrow.. pull th...

Why I started making flutes and a little history about quena flute ... Quena Flute Made in Singapore O.o Let's make Quena! Planning to get a Handy dandy notebk?   This will be a long post.. step by step  .. on making a quena flute. I will provide you with my personal secret handy-dandy tips n tricks, hopefully they will be useful for your flute making. And also I've included the making plans and dimensions for my flute. Don't worry if you do not own any heavy machines or milling machines.. I just find whatever tools I can get around me to make my PVC flute. In another words all the tools that I will be using should be easily obtainable. Yeah!

Yoz! Do you like to make a musical instrument? Of course you do! If not, you wouldn't have landed on this page. Right?  There may be a few reasons to why you want to make your own flute.. for me I find that is not easy to get a flute here in Singapore (  not talking about western flute ). Often hear people asking where can I buy a flute in Singapore?  You can find them, but they are like searching for rare items in a game.. Furthermore bamboo flute may splits when not taken care of properly. Not very durable compared to a pvc made one.. ..For more, here is  my article on plastic instruments Since I love making things out from scratch... why not build my own flute :)  White Black Quena Flute  But First let me give you a short introduction on this flute that I made. Quena is originated from Andean. It has a distinctive sound comparable to a bird-soaring in the sky. The early materials use for making this flu...