i just ordered my flute and started playing a few nights ago. i feel as if it brings me peace of mind when i play it. thank you for this awsome video. and the lesson.
I haven’t made a flute for a many years:) there are so many good ones now though trust that the right one will find you and just reach out it’s an amazing journey I’m so excited for you if you’re looking if you have small hands I would get a G or an AA if you have larger hands and F sharp it’s perfect and it’s the sacred key … long story but trust me so much magic good luck my friend peace to you
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experiences. My 1st NA Flute came from another frustrated Cherokee who's grandfather also refused to sign the Dawes role. He made it from 3/4" pvc and it's very durable. Impervious to moisture or heat and has played the morning song through many sunrises in many campgrounds...
Play the trees. What amazing advice! It's helping me lift my flute playing to a new level of meditativeness and connect with nature as I play. Thank you for this video. Miigwetch
Thank you so much from Spain. The monk´s words were also send through you to the future. The long list of people that benefitted from them, thanks to you is endless as you can appreciate. 10 years after you posted the video is this calm morning that I found by chance your channel! The inspiration of nature for the music is just extraordinary and most wellcome! I have heard similar explanation (but much less precise) from didgeridoo/yidaki players instructed by native australians. I did not quite understand it at tha moment, but I feel that thanks to you I understand the meaning. Suprisingly, people from very far apart who have played wind instruments have come to similar conclusions and filosophies! Lets hope that the monk´s words will keep on traveling through the years and reach more and more people... Best regards, and appreciation! Alberto
This has allowed me to take my flute playing to a new level. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts with us. And I love the tree line / shore line advice on playing from nature. And it really resonated with me when you said our voices are flutes and our hearts are drums, and that we send out healing to the world through our own vibrations. Pretty powerful stuff. Amazing video. Thank you!
Awwwwwwww…..look at you being all cute and young here!! 💕 ….. I actually went out and “played the trees” at sunset last night … thought of you ….. maybe next time I’ll record it! Later dude … hugs… 🤗🛸🎶💕🦋
Just recently picked up my first Native American flute, thanks so much for the advice on how to turn to Mother Nature for inspiration! Playing this instrument really feels like coming home:)
"I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out."-Christ Jesus. All of nature has a voice! Thank you for sharing this lovely video.
I have just bought my first flute, its beautiful and I loved finding this video. Play the trees is just what I need as a tree and earth witch, to celebrate the elements and to communicate with nature and hopefully not frighten away the birds! Could you tell me what the Native American words for wind in the trees is please ? Many thanks for sharing your beautiful music🙏
I am just thinking that I can play “people , “ I played music on street , see taller people , is higher notes , short people is low note . Or play different people postures. Life is amazing ! I am going to buy a flute .
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, whatching your video and listening to what you have to say makes me calm and it feels somehow like healing. I instantly bought 3 of your CDs and I hope it iwill be fine for you if I learn how to play some of your wonderful songs and play ithem not only for me but also someday to others who like to listen to this kind of music. Many thanks again Sir. And greetings from Germany.
Just bumped into your video.. wow , all video i see are 10+ yrs old. But, the lady who taught you must be your God sent teacher. Your voice is so soothing.
You are so generous to share this information and such beautiful thoughts with us. Your music is soothing to the soul. You do seem to have an angelic quality! We need more kind and gentle souls in our world. Thanks so much for sharing your insights and experiences with us!
Temos a flauta nativa Americana um instrumento musical típico do Estados Unidos como é o pífano nordestino é para o Brasil. E é bem interessante sobre o instrumento musical.
The word “selah” is found throughout the Psalms and comes from the Hebrew and means: ‘Rock’ or ‘Cliff’. Imagine yourself on a cliff overlooking a valley. You are supported, or lifted up, by the rock, or cliff, and you come to ‘see’. There are many moments to pause there on the cliff… and you are quiet… and come to appreciate… and to understand. The Tibetan monk you tell of, spent many moments on a mountain top and came to see. Thank You for letting me stand on your mountain top.
Wyatt Earp passed that all into a younger maker many years ago my friend:) trust your choice and the right flute will find you:) make sure tuned to key A440.
This is one of the most amazing video dedicated to the native american flute I saw :) thank you, you seem to be a really nice, kind man with a lot of peace in his heart spreadig it across the world through your art with music and paints ♥
@@theluckyeaglesplate2781 … Unfortunately no ..not yet, but hopefully we will the next time we cross paths! He’s the one who talked me into getting my first flute! 😊🛸🎶🦋
@@theluckyeaglesplate2781 Well, I’m a handpan player first and foremost .. I play every day … but at least once a week I pick up flutes for a change of pace … not very good at it but slowly getting there!! 😊🛸🎶🦋
@@WardStroud you’re so welcome Ward. Keep shining your light 🌱☀️ I live in Ireland and was going to buy a flute online. Do you have any recommendations on a good price point for one?
Perfect production. Liked & subbed. I'm here because a NAF is being made for me. I have 14 tinwhistles/pennywhistles/Irish whistles and one Quena. It's time to have a n NAF
Thank you so much for making this great video! My grandfather recently gave me a six hole native american style flute, and this video taught me how to start playing it.
You mentioned that you make flutes yourself. Can I order one from you? How can I get in touch? Thank you. I am grateful for your sharing. Alexander Chua
Edwin from Costa Rica. Very inspirational !!! You my friend lifted my spirit !!! I will get my flute and practice once again !!! I-am a beginner . Thank you for sharing!!! God bless you and all our Native American Brothers !!!
Thank you that was so very interesting. I listened very carefully to all your words. I also play Native American flutes. I have several of them. I am drawn to them by their beauty and beautiful sound. I have played them for more than ten years now. Thank you for explaining them so well. I did not know all these facts before. I will try playing the sky lines. I also play Irish flutes and recorders. Music is a wonderful thing and very healing. Thank you for your talk I can see you are a very wise sincere man who has discovered one of the many secrets of life. God has Blessed you.
WoW! What a beautiful "story". Thank you for sharing such a beautiful gift. I will never not hear the trees, thanks to you, thanks to her. She lives on in more people than she will ever know. Thank you many times over. I recently received thee most beautiful flute I have never had the pleasure of playing or knowing. I will forever treasure it. The beauty it brings to my eyes, my ears and my heart. Special thanks to Butch Hall, the creator. Special thanks to you for this beautiful video!💜💜💕🌷🎶
Thank you for showing how to cover the holes...I have short fingers and am finding learning the flute to be a challenge. I totally love your explanation on how to draw music from nature. Once again, thanks from my heart
I have been making these flutes for 27 years , thank you for playing and demonstrating so well the beauty that is
When you told the story of the Monk and how how told you to play the tree line and water current... That just changed everything for me.
Me too. So simple yet profound
This is why I got the Native American fluting and learning to play it.
So beautiful, thank you. I will play the landscape from now on.
Thank you for this beautiful and uplifting lesson. You
i just ordered my flute and started playing a few nights ago. i feel as if it brings me peace of mind when i play it. thank you for this awsome video. and the lesson.
Good to see you join the tube, Ward! I hope you're happy and healthy and still paying a lot of flute! -Dylan H
Thank you! Gratitude!
Really enjoyed your approach to music and life. Thank you. Your instruments look and sound beautiful.
He is so good at it ! I like his teaching !
Love this sound❤️❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕💕
Thanks for this heart felt introduction to the NAF. I am just beginning to learn how to make a flute and love the look of your flute.
Wonderful intro. I just ordered a flute, and this helped so much. Thank you.
So. inspiring.
amazing thank you
Who is the flute maker and instructor?
Do you sell your flutes online?
I haven’t made a flute for a many years:) there are so many good ones now though trust that the right one will find you and just reach out it’s an amazing journey I’m so excited for you if you’re looking if you have small hands I would get a G or an AA if you have larger hands and F sharp it’s perfect and it’s the sacred key … long story but trust me so much magic good luck my friend peace to you
Where is Jene Ward Stroud?
Are you OK????
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experiences. My 1st NA Flute came from another frustrated Cherokee who's grandfather also refused to sign the Dawes role. He made it from 3/4" pvc and it's very durable. Impervious to moisture or heat and has played the morning song through many sunrises in many campgrounds...
Play the trees. What amazing advice! It's helping me lift my flute playing to a new level of meditativeness and connect with nature as I play. Thank you for this video. Miigwetch
Thank you so much from Spain. The monk´s words were also send through you to the future. The long list of people that benefitted from them, thanks to you is endless as you can appreciate. 10 years after you posted the video is this calm morning that I found by chance your channel! The inspiration of nature for the music is just extraordinary and most wellcome! I have heard similar explanation (but much less precise) from didgeridoo/yidaki players instructed by native australians. I did not quite understand it at tha moment, but I feel that thanks to you I understand the meaning. Suprisingly, people from very far apart who have played wind instruments have come to similar conclusions and filosophies! Lets hope that the monk´s words will keep on traveling through the years and reach more and more people... Best regards, and appreciation! Alberto
We are all one …
Thanks for the kind words and for hearing them my friend…
Thank you.
I will sit on my hill top. And play the hills around me. It will be a new voice.🍂🌼🍁🌾
This has allowed me to take my flute playing to a new level. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts with us. And I love the tree line / shore line advice on playing from nature. And it really resonated with me when you said our voices are flutes and our hearts are drums, and that we send out healing to the world through our own vibrations. Pretty powerful stuff. Amazing video. Thank you!
Awwwwwwww…..look at you being all cute and young here!! 💕 ….. I actually went out and “played the trees” at sunset last night … thought of you ….. maybe next time I’ll record it! Later dude … hugs… 🤗🛸🎶💕🦋
Just recently picked up my first Native American flute, thanks so much for the advice on how to turn to Mother Nature for inspiration! Playing this instrument really feels like coming home:)
Rebekka Sidihakis yes... Home to the heart...
Ward Stroud
Hi Ward, so true! Channeling our inner children
such beautiful music and beatiful words too
Valerie Sotiropoulos Thank You for the kind words and spirit...
"I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out."-Christ Jesus. All of nature has a voice! Thank you for sharing this lovely video.
I've been looking for a way to express how spiritually uplifting and emotional revelant the flute is to me. You have done it eloquently. Thank you.
That is such a Wonderful idea playing the tree line🏕🌲🌵🌲🏜Thank you so much❣️That’s really a beautiful idea🎼
Searcher 59 such a beautiful journey the flute path...
I have just bought my first flute, its beautiful and I loved finding this video. Play the trees is just what I need as a tree and earth witch, to celebrate the elements and to communicate with nature and hopefully not frighten away the birds! Could you tell me what the Native American words for wind in the trees is please ? Many thanks for sharing your beautiful music🙏
i had to move away to take care of my sister with cancer and now im taking care of my mother, i will never forget, the beautiful music you played
God bless and take care of you and yours on yalls journey, Vela!
@@bobbyb7127 thank you! i will always remember seeing you, and hearing your beautiful music!
I am just thinking that I can play “people , “ I played music on street , see taller people , is higher notes , short people is low note . Or play different people postures. Life is amazing ! I am going to buy a flute .
So beautiful! Thank you for the teachings. It was the inspiration that I needed to reconnect with my flute.
Beautiful presentation!
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, whatching your video and listening to what you have to say makes me calm and it feels somehow like healing. I instantly bought 3 of your CDs and I hope it iwill be fine for you if I learn how to play some of your wonderful songs and play ithem not only for me but also someday to others who like to listen to this kind of music. Many thanks again Sir. And greetings from Germany.
BirdmannTutorials / Feuerbussard I’m honored and grateful... many blessing my flute friend...
Just bumped into your video.. wow , all video i see are 10+ yrs old. But, the lady who taught you must be your God sent teacher. Your voice is so soothing.
A’ho. Wopila.
Amazing video brother ♥️🙏
Where can I purchase your cool flutes?😁
You are so generous to share this information and such beautiful thoughts with us. Your music is soothing to the soul. You do seem to have an angelic quality! We need more kind and gentle souls in our world. Thanks so much for sharing your insights and experiences with us!
I very much like this video, please let me correct you on 8:25 as a hebrew speaker - Roah means spirit or wind
Multi talented. Love your playing, & watercolor & brusho & photography, & so much more.
Thanks!!!! Very nice. Great music lesson!!!!
beautiful ward stroud
I made one in A from a 25mm aluminium tube. Sounds pretty loud with tons of overtones. So a very rich and full sound.
Temos a flauta nativa Americana um instrumento musical típico do Estados Unidos como é o pífano nordestino é para o Brasil.
E é bem interessante sobre o instrumento musical.
This was so profoundly beautiful. Thank you so so much, Ward. Deep Bow. Wow the landscape music chart!! I will never forget that. What a gift!
The word “selah” is found throughout the Psalms and comes from the Hebrew and means: ‘Rock’ or ‘Cliff’.
Imagine yourself on a cliff overlooking a valley. You are supported, or lifted up, by the rock, or cliff, and you come to ‘see’. There are many moments to pause there on the cliff… and you are quiet… and come to appreciate… and to understand. The Tibetan monk you tell of, spent many moments on a mountain top and came to see. Thank You for letting me stand on your mountain top.
Thank you so much for that inspiration I'm very new to the flute and I now have something to work on thank you ward much appreciated
You mentioned that you make flutes, where Could I find some of your flutes if they are for sale?
Wyatt Earp passed that all into a younger maker many years ago my friend:) trust your choice and the right flute will find you:) make sure tuned to key A440.
@@WardStroud Thank you Sir for responding. I will keep searching.
That was so beautiful, the music & wisdom....thank you. 💜
You're a Great Spirit. Namaskar 🙏
Really nice explenation. thanks a lot.
How absolutely beautiful Ward. Thank you so much. What inspiration to look to nature as our music score. Bless you.
Wow thank you for sharing all of that
What a precious lesson!! Thank you a lot for this. I'd like to express my gratitude from here in Brazilian amazon to the brothers of the north.
Taiguã.90 thank you. We are all one...
Hey ward did you ever paint a painting of a man playing a flute? The flute having a shape of a women
I painted a Snake Charmer long long ago?
Thank you!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!!!
Thank you, I learned something today.
HAW
WATCHING NOW💻
NICE NIGHT 🌙
Man this was amazing
Your flutes are beautiful and they sound fantastic
you are a beautiful soul. Thank you very much.
Very nice.
Awww. I miss my flute,,,
that was a very interesting and informative video thank you Ward I learned a lot from it
This is one of the most amazing video dedicated to the native american flute I saw :) thank you, you seem to be a really nice, kind man with a lot of peace in his heart spreadig it across the world through your art with music and paints ♥
😊 … I know him and he IS everything you said and more! 🛸🎶🦋
@@thathandpanlady4510 that is a really nice confirmation :) did you do some duet with him?:)
@@theluckyeaglesplate2781 … Unfortunately no ..not yet, but hopefully we will the next time we cross paths! He’s the one who talked me into getting my first flute! 😊🛸🎶🦋
@@thathandpanlady4510 nice :) are you enjoying it? :)
@@theluckyeaglesplate2781 Well, I’m a handpan player first and foremost .. I play every day … but at least once a week I pick up flutes for a change of pace … not very good at it but slowly getting there!! 😊🛸🎶🦋
❤
Thank you.
Thank you
Thank you
WOW😢
The Bob Ross of flutes.
That may be the most beautiful complement I’ve ever been given !
thank you so much;)
@@WardStroud you’re so welcome Ward. Keep shining your light 🌱☀️ I live in Ireland and was going to buy a flute online. Do you have any recommendations on a good price point for one?
Perfect production. Liked & subbed. I'm here because a NAF is being made for me. I have 14 tinwhistles/pennywhistles/Irish whistles and one Quena. It's time to have a n NAF
Very inspiring, thanks so much for sharing with us all 🤍🙏
Beautiful video, thank you!
Thank you so much for making this great video! My grandfather recently gave me a six hole native american style flute, and this video taught me how to start playing it.
Thank you.
I will sit on my hill top. And play the hills around me. It will be a new voice.🍂🌼🍁🌾
You mentioned that you make flutes yourself. Can I order one from you? How can I get in touch? Thank you. I am grateful for your sharing.
Alexander Chua
Belly Chua my flute making days are long behind me. I trust that when you wish for one it will find you... enjoy the journey my friend...
Thank you! I really love Native American Flute. I love listening and playing ...
Wauw beautyful spoken!!🙏🌲🌳. Holland
The message from the monk touched me, I will forever use it and pass it on. Thanks !!!
Thank you magic of love. Just bought a low D flute. I bliss out every time l play it. 😘🙏👌
Edwin from Costa Rica. Very inspirational !!! You my friend lifted my spirit !!! I will get my flute and practice once again !!! I-am a beginner . Thank you for sharing!!! God bless you and all our Native American Brothers !!!
Thank you that was so very interesting. I listened very carefully to all your words. I also play Native American flutes. I have several of them. I am drawn to them by their beauty and beautiful sound. I have played them for more than ten years now. Thank you for explaining them so well. I did not know all these facts before. I will try playing the sky lines.
I also play Irish flutes and recorders. Music is a wonderful thing and very healing. Thank you for your talk I can see you are a very wise sincere man who has discovered one of the many secrets of life. God has Blessed you.
You are a WONDERFUL teacher!!! 🎶🎶🎶
And your flutes are BEAUTIFUL 🥰
ruach means spirit breath
wulfina moon thank you...
I stopped to hear you play and get some tips. But the words of the monk were an unexpected gem of wisdom that really resonates. Thank you
WoW! What a beautiful "story". Thank you for sharing such a beautiful gift. I will never not hear the trees, thanks to you, thanks to her. She lives on in more people than she will ever know. Thank you many times over. I recently received thee most beautiful flute I have never had the pleasure of playing or knowing. I will forever treasure it. The beauty it brings to my eyes, my ears and my heart. Special thanks to Butch Hall, the creator. Special thanks to you for this beautiful video!💜💜💕🌷🎶
i want to learn this instrument
what key is this flute
F#
Thank you for sharing this. Your video is overflowing with intelligence, artistry and gentle wisdom.
I am going to play to the trees. I loved that story. Thank you for explaining how to do it.
Wow beautiful! All in one video, all the beauty spoken of a native flute. You are amazing! 😀 🌹
Reading nature to play how marvelous! 🙏🙌💕
Thank you :)
Your welcome🙏🏽
A very beautiful lesson, thank you.
Thank you for showing how to cover the holes...I have short fingers and am finding learning the flute to be a challenge. I totally love your explanation on how to draw music from nature. Once again, thanks from my heart
beautifull
Thank you! I cant wait to find my flute. I love stories like this. Did you make your flute?
Anne Vickers You’re welcome and yes I did make it many moons ago:)
What key is it in?
Thank you for this video. You answered my questions as to what I was doing wrong.
I have no words, just love and appreciation❤
Did you say you make these too? Oh Wow! Yes I subscribed.