Here are just a few resources, online and off, for flute players and makers. For recommended reading, see A Flute Bookshelf.
An extensive collection of links to flute Web sites.
www.flute.com
Help for playing the modern flute.
users.pandora.be/flute
An extensive set of resources.
www.firescribble.net/flute
Includes info on flutemaking.
www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3532
Photos of historic and ethnic flutes from a mammoth collection at the U.S. Library of Congress.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/dcmhtml/dmhome.html
A great site by Loren Stafford on making and playing the quena, or kena, an Andean flute. Features instructions for working with plastic plumbing pipe—including how to mold it into a taper!
www.fippless.org/Quena
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For all things flute. A good place to get questions answered.
groups.yahoo.com/group/flutenet
Another list for all things flute.
subscribe flute firstname lastname
listserv@listserv.syr.edu
For makers of any type of flute.
groups.yahoo.com/group/flutemakers
For anyone wanting to make a Native American flute.
groups.yahoo.com/group/nativeflutewoodworking
All listings below are U.S. unless noted.
A prime source for books on making and playing simple flutes of various types and cultures, as well as for anything related to the Japanese shakuhachi. If it’s available anywhere, it will likely be here! Offerings include books and videos on Native American flutes.
Monty Levenson
P.O. Box 294
Willits, CA 95490
707-459-3402
www.shakuhachi.com
A source of shell augers, needed to bore a wooden flute on a lathe.
102 Harvest Lane
Sheffield S3 8EG
ENGLAND
+44-0-114-273-7677
A source of flute repair tools and supplies.
1477 E. Michigan Ave.
Battle Creek, MI 49014
800-253-2261
www.ferreestools.com
Another source of flute repair tools and supplies.
1523 N. National Ave.
Springfield, MO 65803
800-894-8665
www.votawtool.com