Native American Little Tree Flute for Kids

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This tiny little flute is called the Little Tree Flute. I came up with this idea because at the shows that I do there are lots of people with kids and the kids wanted to play a flute. The parents said well it's kind of loud, it's kind of expensive. My thought was to come up with a flute that will be perfect for kids fingers and kids hands. The way that I designed this flute...It plays at a lower kind of intermediate G pitch, even though it's so small. The way that I got this flute to do that was by first of all, having a rather large bore so there's a lot of volume in there. Then also closing the end of the flute. You can see there at the end other than the other flutes, which are open is actually closing this tiny little hole there. That's a tuning hole at the end. This Native American flute, which plays with the same fingering as other Native Flutes, is actually an ocarina. An ocarina is a flute that's closed all the way around except for the tone holes. We have here a Native American ocarina that looks like a flute and plays like a flute for small hands.

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