Tutorials

New to flute making? Start here.

Six short lessons, in order. Each one has pictures of the calculator, so you can follow along.

Slow air chamber, plug, flue, sound hole, splitting edge: what each one does.

Pick a key and the number of holes. That's really all it takes.

The drawing, the hole table, the fingering chart and the checks.

Copy the code, run the gadget, glue the halves.

The printed hole template, drilling, and bringing each note into tune.

The acoustics behind the numbers, and the makers and references they come from.