Flute

Well if anyone thought summer is here after all warm days - today it has been snowing all day. Just a few degrees above zero. Summer seems far away now.
But one can always relax by making some music. I have become rather facsinated by different kinds of flutes. I am quite fond of the beautiful native american flutes. Have been playing on one for some time now, and it is easier than the chinese hulusi I also use.
Found some forums on the Internet but not yet anyone here in (north) Sweden who plays it.

The natural tone scale of those flutes (pentatonic mode 1, meaning 1½-1-1-1½-1 tone distances) is very harmonic and nice. Those flute invite to improvisation. But you can of course play diatonic music as well on them.
Maybe I will put some little tune here in due time.
Where do you get a native american flute? Mine comes from High Spirit. Good flutes, reasonable prices. Just ordered two more.

Happy New Year...

A Happy New Year to all of you...
It has been impossible to find time to write here the last few weeks of 2007. For a pastor, Christmas always is a busy time.
One of the things we had in church was a music evening, as every year. Last year I demonstrated my hulusi (chinese flute), this year I could play a bit on a native american flute I bought in S Dakota when I was at NAIITS conference. Native flutes have a beautiful sound, they differ from western flutes in have either 5 or 6 holes. They are based on a pentatonic scale just as the chinese ones. It is fun playing those, beside the ordinary western flutes (which also sound beautiful...)

There are many ways to share the Christmas gospel. One is to play it with hand-made puppets, as my wife did for a number of school classes, while I was reading the texts to it. Amazing to see how small children forget everything and are completely involved in the play!

Look back here, I hope to update a bit more often in the future.