5 FOOT CHINESE TAN BAMBOO FLUTE - Carved and Painted!

A custom bamboo flute design of Thomas Richardson Music.

Inspired by the bamboo flute that David Carradine plays in scenes from Kill Bill. The flute featured in Kill Bill is a David Carradine flute design.

David is a unique flute builder and he grows his own bamboo, harvests it, and designs beautiful bamboo flutes for himself.

He sets the emboucher, the breath hole, several cells down the bamboo towards the center depending on what kind of bamboo he is making his flute out of. The flute he designed for Bruce Lee's film "The Silent Flute" is a great example of his creative flute building perspective.

On this Kill Bill Flute Replica the emboucher is located after the third node of the bamboo which creates a nice sound chamber above the emboucher. This flute can be rested on the left shoulder like a violin. Tuned to an Oriental Minor scale. 3 octaves. Tuned at A 440 Concert pitch. Comfortable to finger and to hold. Made from cured Tan Chinese Tonkin bamboo.

The size of this flute is inspired by the flutes of the ancient Shaolin KUNG FU masters who used their Shakuhachi's as walking sticks, wind instruments and as weapons.

You can play some very interesting sounding Oriental musical lines with a simple straight up and down the scale fingering. My flutes are great tools to explore NADA YOGA, sound meditation.

The bore is finished and sealed with Orange oil. I use a final eco-flo natural water based stain application to create the final finish and then hand rub with lemon and orange oil. Waxed vinyl thread bindings. Fire treated finish sealed in bee's wax while still hot from the fire. This flute features the Kanji symbol for TIGER which has been hand carved, hand carved and painted Tiger, hand carved and painted Peacock and other Oriental motiff designs by my artist/belly dancer wife Nicole Richardson. Beautiful illustrations on the upper chamber and body of this beautiful Chinese Tan bamboo flute.

Head out into special nature spots to play near streams and rivers or walk to great acoustical spots in your neighborhood which feature large natural reverberation. The interesting spots can help you to tune in and deeply explore the meditative sounds of your flutes.

Recent EBAY feedback on my black bamboo kill bill flute replica :
Praise: Big, beautiful, haunting flute. Excellent transaction -- thanks!

Inspire your personal meditations with unique bamboo sounds!