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  • How It Is Made
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The bamboo leaf - the wider the leaf type the thinner the bamboo wall which will produce warmer sound
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The bamboo that I used to craft the flute
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The wild bamboo. Notice the long and thin culm, perfect for the flute making
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It can easily takes 2 months to get this yellowish color from the greeny wild bamboo
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Pile of dried ("cured") bamboo stalks. Note the long culm which is hard to obtained
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Cut the culm to the right length which based on the flute keys - i.e. the lowest note it will play (base note)
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Cut flute to various length based on key to play and its called the flute blanks
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Measure and mark the tone holes to play the notes by measuring the distances from the flute end
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The piercing iron rods heated until red hod on a gas stove
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Wooden flute stand
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Raw bamboo on the stand
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Heating up bamboo to get the color tone and to straighten the flute
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Bending the flute after heating to get the straight flute. Cooling the hot bamboo with waterto make it straight permanently
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Piercing pilot holes on the marks
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Bamboo after heated up to produce the tone color with hole marks on top
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Crafting the final hole size to produce right note
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Crafting the final hole size to produce right note. The hotter the iron rod the easier to drill the holes
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Drilling pilot hole for the embouchure
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Finalizing the right size for the embouchure hole
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Sanding - rough sanding
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Final sanding - manually done
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Flutes of multi keys after being sanded
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Finishing the holes
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Clean out the burnt marks and finihing the holes
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Washing using normal detergent
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Cleaning the inner bore using detergent and specially designed brush
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Lacquered flutes being dried up
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Plugging the cork at the emboucher end and tuning
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Applying gold band accessories at the end of flute
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Applying gold band accessories at the end of flute
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Applying gold band accessories at the middle of flute
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Applying gold band accessories at the middle of flute
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The finished bamboo flutes - This is the Key C4 Minor flute, compared the size to the pen beside
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The Key C4 Minor bamboo flutes measuring to 70 cm in total length and effective flute length of 62 cm
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