$64.99
Joseph Rivers commissioned me to build this flute for him for personal meditation practices and for recording work in the key of G minor. Made from cured Chinese stone bamboo. Custom mixed staining methods. Brown thread bindings. Concert pitch tuning.

You can play some very interesting sounding musical lines with a simple straight up and down the scale fingering.

Everything sounds very beautiful and melodic.

Ascend and descend the scale 2 fingers at a time and back to straight up and down the scale. Slowly peacefully playing the scale.

Nicole has updated the art which is based off of an Etruscan theme, a depiction of an unidentified big cat. 5 tone holes, with a thumb hole on the bottom like a Japanese flute.

Head out into special nature spots, play near streams and rivers, walk to great acoustical spots in your neighborhood and play!

Correspondence from Joseph copied from email :

Hi Thomas,

We received the flute just fine, and it is beautiful for touch, smell and sound. We love the markings as well, and of course the wonderful scent, but more importantly the sound. I am a bit rusty--a bit different from playing our native flutes (my wife and I each have one), but we both look forward to playing it continually. When I have the flute recorded for the film I will send you an audio--they are really short phrases as part of the Main Title theme.

Thanks so much,

Joseph

Joseph L. Rivers, Ph.D.

$85.99
A custom bamboo flute design by Thomas Richardson Music, directly inspired by the bamboo flute that David Carradine plays in scenes from Kill Bill. The flute featured in the Kill Bill film is a David Carradine flute design.

David was a unique flute builder! He grew his own bamboo, he harvested it, and designed beautiful bamboo flutes for himself. He tended to set the emboucher, the breath hole, several cells down the bamboo towards the center depending on what kind of bamboo he was making his flute out of. The flute he designed for "the Silent Flute" film is a great example of his creative flute building perspective. If you view his Tai Chi AM / PM DVD in the special features you get a good look at his flutes, especially the flute he made for Bruce Lee's film. The flutes I am listing on Etsy look a lot like the flutes Carradine made for Kill Bill, Kung Fu and for the Silent Flute.

On this Kill Bill flute replica, the emboucher is located after the third or fourth node of the bamboo, which creates a sound chamber above the emboucher. This flute can be rested on the left shoulder when playing like a violin. Tuned to the Pentatonic Minor scale. Features 5 tone holes with a thumb hole like a Shakuhachi flute. 1-3 octaves. This flute is tuned at A 440 concert pitch. Comfortable to finger and to hold. Made from tan cured Chinese tonkin bamboo.

The length of this flute is inspired by the flutes of the ancient Shaolin KUNG FU masters who used their instruments as walking sticks, weapons and as instruments of meditative music.

In my workshop, I cure different species of bamboo all year long. When I build your flute order I drill the emboucher and the tone holes first, then I finish the tone holes with a quick burn from a selection of burning rods. I use a nice custom mix of dark and red stain finish, an eco-flow natural water based stain color embellishing application other stains and colors and a final treatment of orange oil.

From professional musician Raymond Robinson's of Ireland on his website, a review of my flute building work: "Sometimes when you are researching flutes you come across wonderful makers who are quietly making facinating flutes. They deserve a wider audience and one of those makers is Thomas Richardson. I now own a unique one off design Middle Eastern Forest flute from Thomas' wide range. These are not expensive instruments but are made with the highest care and quality. This is a four holed flute with thumb hole and has a great scale. Take the opportunity to visit Thomas flute building work online. He has a large range of flutes and other instruments. Just brilliant."

MP3 sound files and many more photos of my flutes are located on my website.

Thanks for your interest in my exotic bamboo flutes,

Thomas Richardson, Bamboo Flute Designer/Musician

Note: Shipping is a bit higher due to the 4 foot length of this flute design.

$64.99
KUNG FU TV SERIES INSPIRED AND DAVID CARRADINE INSPIRED!

During the life of the western adventure KUNG FU/ABC/1972-75 much wisdom was imparted to both the aspiring Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine), as well as the listening audience.

You've seen Tarantino's "Kill Bill" with actor David Carradine playing the role of "Bill" and the bamboo flute Carradine plays in Kill Bill. You have seen the bamboo flute in the KUNG FU TV series, or you may have seen the flute Carradine designed for Bruce Lee's "The Silent Flute" in all cases you were inspired by the vision of these flutes.

Check out my 3 foot KUNG FU MEDITATION FLUTE!

This 3 foot bamboo flute has a wonderful Asian voice with 2 octaves. Great for meditation and musical contemplation or for studio recording work. Tuned to the Pentatonic Minor scale. My flutes are excellent instruments to explore meditation.

The length and sound of this bamboo flute is inspired by the flutes of the ancient Shaolin Kung Fu masters who used their instruments as walking sticks, martial arts weapons and as simple bamboo flutes.

A mix of stains are used to create the finish. The bore is detailed in gold or burgandy. Brown thread bindings. Made from cured Chinese Stone bamboo.

Tuned in A440 concert pitch. My wife Nicole has hand carved and painted the KANJI script for KUNG FU to enhance the intention of this beautiful dark bamboo flute.

If you want something specific with the finish or the script or art simply email me. We can create anything for you artistically.

$62.99
KUNG FU TV SERIES INSPIRED AND DAVID CARRADINE INSPIRED!

During the life of the western adventure KUNG FU/ABC/1972-75 much wisdom was imparted to both the aspiring Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine), as well as the listening audience.

You've seen Tarantino's "Kill Bill" with actor David Carradine playing the role of "Bill" and the bamboo flute Carradine plays in Kill Bill. You have seen the bamboo flute in the KUNG FU TV series, or you may have seen the flute Carradine designed for Bruce Lee's "The Silent Flute" in all cases you were inspired by the vision of these flutes.

Check out my 3 foot KUNG FU MEDITATION FLUTE!

This 3 foot bamboo flute has a wonderful Asian voice with 2 octaves. Great for meditation and musical contemplation or for studio recording work. Tuned to the Pentatonic Minor scale. My flutes are excellent instruments to explore meditation.

The length and sound of this bamboo flute is inspired by the flutes of the ancient Shaolin Kung Fu masters who used their instruments as walking sticks, martial arts weapons and as simple bamboo flutes.

A mix of stains are used to create the finish. The bore is detailed in gold or burgandy. Brown thread bindings. Made from cured Chinese Stone bamboo.

Tuned in A440 concert pitch. My wife Nicole has hand carved and painted the KANJI script for KUNG FU to enhance the intention of this beautiful dark bamboo flute.

If you want something specific with the finish or the script or art simply email me. We can create anything for you artistically.

$63.99
Joseph Rivers commissioned me to build this flute for him for personal meditation practices and for recording work in the key of G minor. Made from cured Chinese stone bamboo. Custom mixed staining methods. Brown thread bindings. Concert pitch tuning.

You can play some very interesting sounding musical lines with a simple straight up and down the scale fingering.

Everything sounds very beautiful and melodic.

Ascend and descend the scale 2 fingers at a time and back to straight up and down the scale. Slowly peacefully playing the scale.

Nicole has updated the art which is based off of an Etruscan theme, a depiction of an unidentified big cat. 5 tone holes, with a thumb hole on the bottom like a Japanese flute.

Head out into special nature spots, play near streams and rivers, walk to great acoustical spots in your neighborhood and play!

Correspondence from Joseph copied from email :

Hi Thomas,

We received the flute just fine, and it is beautiful for touch, smell and sound. We love the markings as well, and of course the wonderful scent, but more importantly the sound. I am a bit rusty--a bit different from playing our native flutes (my wife and I each have one), but we both look forward to playing it continually. When I have the flute recorded for the film I will send you an audio--they are really short phrases as part of the Main Title theme.

Thanks so much,

Joseph

Joseph L. Rivers, Ph.D.

$50.00
14 Inch Anasazi Tuned Bamboo Flute

The origins of the Native American flute are full of mystery. Bone whistles dating from (B.C.300 - A.D. 300 ) have been found in northeastern Arizona, and bone flutes of the Pueblo I era (A.D. 800-900) were also unearthed in the Anasazi area. Most prehistoric flutes were made of plant material, river cane and wood, they have long since disappeared due to decay. A few examples, have been discovered.

This is modern design side blown bamboo flute made from cured Chinese bamboo. The scale the original Anasazi flutes were tuned to is:

Bb (below middle C) - All holes closed

C (middle C) - Bottom hole open

C# - Two holes open

D - Three holes open

F - Four holes open

G - Five holes open

A - All holes open

This Anasazi flute features a fire treated finish. All tone holes are burned in. Custom stain finish. The bore is detailed in burgandy or cherry red. Eco flow water based stain color embellishing final application with hints of gold. My artist wife Nicole Richardson has hand carved and painted Petroglyphs and Anasazi inspired geometric designs. 14 inches in length. Tuned to A440 concert pitch.

Fingering straight up and down the scale makes some beautiful native style sounds, ascending and descending the scale again 2 fingers at a time and 3 fingers at a time produces some very meditative native sounds to explore within your playing journeys.

A wonderful flute for contemplation and professional recording work.

Thanks for looking!

Thomas Richardson, Bamboo Flute Maker/Musician

$82.99
A custom bamboo flute design by Thomas Richardson Music, directly inspired by the bamboo flute that David Carradine plays in scenes from Kill Bill. The flute featured in the Kill Bill film is a David Carradine flute design.

David was a unique flute builder! He grew his own bamboo, he harvested it, and designed beautiful bamboo flutes for himself. He tended to set the emboucher, the breath hole, several cells down the bamboo towards the center depending on what kind of bamboo he was making his flute out of. The flute he designed for "the Silent Flute" film is a great example of his creative flute building perspective. If you view his Tai Chi AM / PM DVD in the special features you get a good look at his flutes, especially the flute he made for Bruce Lee's film. The flutes I am listing on Etsy look a lot like the flutes Carradine made for Kill Bill, Kung Fu and for the Silent Flute.

On this Kill Bill flute replica, the emboucher is located after the third or fourth node of the bamboo, which creates a sound chamber above the emboucher. This flute can be rested on the left shoulder when playing like a violin. Tuned to the Pentatonic Minor scale. Features 5 tone holes with a thumb hole like a Shakuhachi flute. 1-3 octaves. This flute is tuned at A 440 concert pitch. Comfortable to finger and to hold. Made from tan cured Chinese tonkin bamboo.

The length of this flute is inspired by the flutes of the ancient Shaolin KUNG FU masters who used their instruments as walking sticks, weapons and as instruments of meditative music.

In my workshop, I cure different species of bamboo all year long. When I build your flute order I drill the emboucher and the tone holes first, then I finish the tone holes with a quick burn from a selection of burning rods. I use a nice custom mix of dark and red stain finish, an eco-flow natural water based stain color embellishing application other stains and colors and a final treatment of orange oil.

From professional musician Raymond Robinson's of Ireland on his website, a review of my flute building work: "Sometimes when you are researching flutes you come across wonderful makers who are quietly making facinating flutes. They deserve a wider audience and one of those makers is Thomas Richardson. I now own a unique one off design Middle Eastern Forest flute from Thomas' wide range. These are not expensive instruments but are made with the highest care and quality. This is a four holed flute with thumb hole and has a great scale. Take the opportunity to visit Thomas flute building work online. He has a large range of flutes and other instruments. Just brilliant."

MP3 sound files and many more photos of my flutes are located on my website.

Thanks for your interest in my exotic bamboo flutes,

Thomas Richardson, Bamboo Flute Designer/Musician

Note: Shipping is a bit higher due to the 4 foot length of this flute design.

$62.99
KUNG FU TV SERIES INSPIRED AND DAVID CARRADINE INSPIRED!

During the life of the western adventure KUNG FU/ABC/1972-75 much wisdom was imparted to both the aspiring Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine), as well as the listening audience.

You've seen Tarantino's "Kill Bill" with actor David Carradine playing the role of "Bill" and the bamboo flute Carradine plays in Kill Bill. You have seen the bamboo flute in the KUNG FU TV series, or you may have seen the flute Carradine designed for Bruce Lee's "The Silent Flute" in all cases you were inspired by the vision of these flutes.

Check out my 3 foot KUNG FU MEDITATION FLUTE!

This 3 foot bamboo flute has a wonderful Asian voice with 2 octaves. Great for meditation and musical contemplation or for studio recording work. Tuned to the Pentatonic Minor scale. My flutes are excellent instruments to explore meditation.

The length and sound of this bamboo flute is inspired by the flutes of the ancient Shaolin Kung Fu masters who used their instruments as walking sticks, martial arts weapons and as simple bamboo flutes.

A mix of stains are used to create the finish. The bore is detailed in gold or burgandy. Brown thread bindings. Made from cured Chinese Stone bamboo.

Tuned in A440 concert pitch. My wife Nicole has hand carved and painted the KANJI script for KUNG FU to enhance the intention of this beautiful dark bamboo flute.

If you want something specific with the finish or the script or art simply email me. We can create anything for you artistically.

$54.77
Zen Buddhist Meditation Flute with 4 tone holes

Beautiful cured Chinese Tonkin Tan / Gold bamboo with a custom mixed stain finish. Color embellishments in eco-flow water based stain. Brown thread bindings.

4 tone hole Pentatonic scale. Concert pitch tuned in A440 Features soothing meditative tones. Straight up and down the scale fingering sounds meditative and Asian.

An easy flute to play with wonderful sounds to explore.

Hand carved Kanji script for Zen with hand painted gold cloud motiff embellishments by my wife Nicole Richardson. This is an amazing looking and sounding flute!

Head out into special nature spots to play or to walk to great acoustical spots in your neighborhood which feature natural reverberation. I find the interesting spots can help you to tune in more and explore the sounds of your flute.

Email correspondence from professional musician KamaNandi after receiving his new ZEN flute:

I left you a phone message, but wanted to write also. The flute is amazing, it sounds great, it looks great, it's top-notch work and I really appreciate what you've done with these flutes. Excellent, I'm extremely pleased.

MP3 sounds are located on my website.

Thomas Richardson, Bamboo Flute Designer

$44.99
Design by flute builder Thomas Richardson

Fire treated finish, sealed in bee's wax with hand carving and painting by my artist wife Nicole Richardson. This beautiful small Shakuhachi features a colorful peacock above the tone holes. Strong cured bamboo stock.

1 Foot in length. 4 tone holes. A 440 concert pitch tuning. Pentatonic tuning.

Built from Chinese Stone Bamboo. Custom mix of eco-stain.

The mouthpiece and the inside of this flute have been treated and colored with fire and dark water based stain. The bore is detailed in burgandy.

Brown thread bindings. Meditative sounding!