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Osiyo (Cherokee for "hello")... Welcome to the cyberspace home of Turtle Mound Flutes. We craft wooden flutes in the Native American style, each themed with images of an animal. In tribute to my Cherokee ancestry, I give each flute the Cherokee name for its animal. 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. The designs used on these deerskin 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 book on the care and playing of your new flute. It contains a few songs and hints on playing style 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. NEWS FLASH: We are excited to have been awarded third place in the Flute Makers' Competition at the 2008 Musical Echoes Flute Festival! Musical Echoes is one of the top two or three musical festivals dedicated to the Native American Flute and is held each year in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. Many of the country's top flute makers have booths at this event and Turtle Mound Flutes was honored to be one of the 35 vendors selected. Competition for top flute maker is stiff, and it was a real thrill to win the third place honors in such an elite group. See some more photos from this event on our Events page, and photos of our award-winning flute on our Custom Flutes page. We hope you will visit these pages often, as we are constantly adding new content. Wado (Cherokee for "Thank You"). Turtle Mound Flutes is still in its formative stage. Please explore our site and see what we currently have available. New pages are being added continually.
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