Flute

[gerti]

Yesterday at a hands-on session of our woodturners club we made flutes. Native American design, pentatonic scale. Sorry for the bad camera phone picture... Material is cedar. The extra yellowish leather strip is a temporary fix for a tuning mistake, the list we used for tuning actually had a typo for the base note my flute came out at. That session was a lot of fun.

[cabinetman]

Nice job, very unique. How does it sound? It reminds me of a flute type instrument we had as kids called a Recorder. Can't play anymore...fingers don't work so well.
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[gerti]

It has more volume, so it is a bit lower than a recorder. And the pentatonic scale gives it a more solemn feel. The wikipedia page has some sound samples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_flute