Turtle Mound Flutes Homepage

Welcome to the cyberspace home of Turtle Mound Flutes. We craft high quality wooden flutes in the Native American style, each themed with images of an animal. In tribute to my Cherokee heritage, I give each flute the Cherokee name for its animal. As the popularity of our flutes has grown, so have been the orders for custom flutes. If you can envision a theme for your special flute, let's talk about making it a reality. See examples of our custom work on our Custom Flutes page. In addition to our wooden flutes, we also make a more rugged version of this style flute that we call our Knock-About Flutes. These use a heavier gauge of PVC than most similar flutes and have the sound mechanism crafted in the same manner as with our wooden flutes. This produces a sound that more closely resembles that of wooden flutes than most other PVC flutes on the market. Finally, we offer a line of hand painted Native American style hand drums to play alone or to accompany your flute music. The designs used on these deerskin and elk skin rawhide instruments are all of authentic Native American origin.

Native American flutes sing a soothing, meditative song that many believe has a healing power. Turtle Mound Flutes shares this belief and promotes the making, playing, and listening to these wonderful instruments.

All of our flutes come with a little "Getting Started" book on the care and playing of your new flute. It contains a few songs and hints on playing techniques to get you started. Then visit our Flute Music page to download some more songs for your flute. These songs are free to all. These song sheets include chords so that the flute may be accompanied by guitar or other chording instruments (autoharps sound especially nice with the Native American Flute). Some songs include lyrics in Cherokee as well.

Also visit our Legends page for some interesting myths and legends surrounding the Native American Flute. In particular, enjoy the beautiful painting of the woodpecker by our dear friend, Dr. Frances Rinaldi, that illustrates the Legend of the First Flute.

Also visit our Extras page, where our friends have sent us poems and such for us to share with you. Please visit it and enjoy the beauty to be found there. A recent addition to this page is the beautiful artwork of our dear friend, Joyce Bugaiski.

NEWS FLASH: We're excited to announce that you can now find Turtle Mound Flutes at the Sundancer Gallery in historic Cocoa Village. Located at 6 Florida Avenue in Cocoa Village, FL 32922 (the intersection of King St. (S.R. 520), Forrest Ave and Florida Ave.; 321-631-0092), the Sundancer Gallery features a beautiful collection of top quality Native American art and artifacts. Turtle Mound Flutes will maintain a selection of our Native American style flutes and drums on consignment to the gallery for you to see and play. If you're in the Brevard County area, we encourage you to stop by and see all of the beautiful items on display there.

MORE NEWS: Following on the heels of our third place finish in the flute makers' competition at the 2008 Musical Echoes Flute Festival in April, we're excited to announce that our flute was awarded First Place honors in the makers' competition at the October 2008 Oklahoma Flute Festival. There is a write-up of this outstanding event with more photos on our Events page, and you can find photos and detailed description of the award-winning flute on our Custom Flutes page.

MORE NEWS: Read the nice article on Turtle Mound Flutes and our Musical Echoes award winning flute from the July 2008 issue of the Senior Life of Florida magazine on the "Senior Life Article" page.

When you're in the Central Florida area, stop by and visit us at the Indian River Flute Circle. We meet the 2nd Tuesday of each month, between 6:30 and 8:30 in the evening, at the Central Brevard Library (308 Forrest Ave., northeast of S.R.520 and U.S.1) in Cocoa, FL.

The circle also offers free performances at the Enchanted Forest Sanctuary in Titusville on the last Saturday of January, April, July, and October (normally at 10AM).

For more info, visit us at:
groups.yahoo.com/group/flutecircle

or contact Laura Clark at 321-632-6755.

Our events are informal and encourage, but do not require, participation from anyone interested in sharing, playing, learning more about, or just listening to Native American style flutes.

We hope you will visit these pages often, as we are constantly adding new content.

Send mail to webmaster@turtlemoundflutes.com with questions or comments about this web site.