Imagine an orchestra in the 1800s consisting entirely of Native Americans (buckskin, feathers, etc.). Each is seated in a chair facing a conductor--a chief in full regalia, no doubt--on an open prairie where the buffalo roam and eagles soar overhead. There's an entire section, first and second chairs, of native flute players vying for position. The orchestra tunes up before the performance. The temperature is the same for everyone--a perfect 72 degrees with no discernible breeze to throw them off. Some players blow harder or softer than others--harder or softer than the maker of the flute, in fact, causing the notes to be sharp or flat. Everyone adjusts their breath until they are all in concert. The chief conductor taps his baton on a podium ... the wind picks up, a buffalo grunts, an eagle screeches.

One brave soul stands up, ignoring all the rest, ignoring the conductor even and begins to adjust his flute to the sounds of nature, to the beat of his own heart. Before he is done, he has caught the eye of the chief's daughter with his beautiful song while the others look on horrified ... "It's got no patterned beat," they say. "You'll never be able to play with the piano man." The chief's daughter defends him: "But you have to love a man who can play with the wind, the buffalo, the eagle. This is the man who is in tune with himself ... and with me (she blushes). This is the man who has stood apart from the crowd and claimed my heart."

Now who is in concert, I ask ... and in concert with what?

Sit down at the camp fire and listen to a little bit of flute and Choctaw facts. 

Youtube really chewed up the quality of this song. 

Watch in .mp4 format (24.0mb).

Listen in .mp3 format (3.5mb)

Flutes are very spiritual to me. I took my new flute to a very special place today. I have been having a difficult time finding a connection to my new flute so I spent the day singing with it and looking for answers.  This is a youtube video I'll upload the .mp3 soon.

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I was pushing the small a minor flute a bit LOUD because I was worried the small microphone on the camera would not be able to hear the flute. This is a youtube only video at the moment.

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This song I attempt to bark on the main flute while I play wolf howls in 3 different flute; Aminor, Dminor and F#

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This is a song about two spirits walking for an eternity. The two flutes become indistinguishable through out the song because each spirit takes turn helping the other off the ground when a one of them falls. The loud burst of music is the fall, the climb in notes that follow is the pick up. Finally the spirit sings begging the other to find courage, beauty and happiness as they walk forward into the future only to fall again.

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My most recent song. I call it: How I Play. It tells the story of how I approach and play the flute each time I pick it up.

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The words that go along with the song are important so I am also providing a link to youtube.

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My 6th Song is named Forgive Us.  It is a song about what our greed, selfishness and blindness that causes needless death and distress to the animals of mother Earth.

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Just a little bit of practice on the Cherokee Mornnig song.  I've recorded this song in both the key of A Minor and F#

Listen to Am version    listen to F# version

My Fith Song I call SongBirdSunrise. It is a flute player singing with a songbird. This is a flute in the key of F#

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