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Old 11-06-2012, 05:22 PM
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Native American Style Flute.

I sold some New Guinea Rosewood,a while back,it mostly a lovely golden brown honey colour,but occasionally its red-the most beautiful exquiste red like no other timber I have ever seen,I have selected amount for special projects-the chap who bought the bundle of regular coloured rosewood,told me he made Native American Style Flutes.

He bought some up as samples,they looked great-but sounded better.I asked if the red version of the timber would make good flutes,he really wanted to buy some,but I traded some of the rare red boards in exchange for having him craft me one.As I was intrigued.

Anyhow,it arrived a while back,and I'll never get time to learn how to play this beautiful instrument-its not massed produced-its made from one single piece of timber-been bored out with a modified rifle boring machine-each flute is individual-even down to the block on top-he knew I was into astronomy and put a loose representation of planets/sun (sorry its got Pluto).

So,a very unique instrument out of exotic and rare timber,really should belong to someone who really knows how to get the best out of it.

So up for sale for $395 comes with instructions,hand made woollen sock.Its a whisper over 2 ft long, (600 mm)


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