How Minimize Moisture in your Native American Flute

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So one of the things I do is that's unique when I make the flutes is I thought for a long time for many years how to solve a certain problem. The problem of the Native American flute player is similar to the recorder player. You have your moist air stream going into a very narrow section there that causes the pressure to rise and so moisture condenses out of your breath and eventually clogs up the flute. The way I solve that problem on my flutes is to use a ceramic piece on both the top and bottom of the wind way. You can see the ceramic in there probably and it's basically a mix of various minerals that's very sturdy and also holds the same shape no matter whether it gets wet or not as ceramic will and it also absorbs moisture. Can you see I put some water on there? It basically just absorbs down into the ceramic without the ceramic changing shape. See it disappearing? So as the moisture condenses out of your breath, the ceramic will absorb the moisture and so you can play my flutes for much longer than you can other native flutes. You can play my flutes actually all day off and on and the sound will stay just the same. Can you see the moisture kind of absorbing into the ceramic there? It kind of does away with this big problem that people have where the flute gets wet and it even stops playing and certainly the sound changes when it gets wet.

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