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It will take a very long time (months at best, years for some of us :( ) before your tone doesn't sound airy, and that's assuming you have a well made, properly functioning instrument. (One leaky pad or tenon, for example, can ruin everything.) If your goal is to make sure the flute can produce a s...

Thanks for your reply. Since I wrote my post, I actually managed to produce a tone. It is very "airy" though, by which I mean I hear the tone, but also a loud breathing sound. I know that not knowing how to play the flute complicates things, that's why I set my goal very low. I don't plan ...

Hi there! I hope this is the right place to ask and that questions of this kind are allowed here! Basically, I spent the past week making my own flute out of a branch of Elderberry. I have never played any instrument, and know virtually nothing about music, so I set my goal really low: I want the in...