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.

CLICK HERE TO PLAY AN MP3 OF THE JOSEPH RIVERS FLUTE

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.

Correspondence from other customers who have purchased this design:

Just wanted to thank you for your work. I love my flute!!! I thought there would be much more resistance (was happy there is none!) and am so surprised with the clear pure tone!!!

THANK YOU!!!!! ;o) C. Wong