Thanks to all who trust in my flutes.
I've been having a lot of orders and as I do every flute in the
traditional way, unique to each customer.
I having 4 weeks delay on them.
If you place an order, Please be patient,
I guarantee you will not regret.
God Bless you, Leo the Flutemaker.
Welcome to my Bamboo Flute workshop! I am Leo Aguirre, I once was a locksmith because I loved detail. I ran a small paper and sowed leather crafts. I am a musician because I love music. One day I became Erik the flutemaker's apprentice and 9 years went by learning the secrets of the flute trade. Presently I am Erik's Associate and his web master, video and photographer and master carver.
With Erik's blessing, I am providing my own customers with a diversity of bamboo flutes with our excellent bamboo harvested and cured in Florida.
Wild Artisans has sold instruments around the world and our customers enjoy the fact that each flute is made with tender loving care, passion and spirit.
Thanks for stopping by.
God bless you.
Leo the Flutemaker
Hello to all: Leo the Flutemaker would like to sincerely thank Erik Sampson for his unconditional assistance toward us with the videos we have taped and his support as a flutemaker for many mentoring years.
May God continue to bless you dear brother!
The use of wood, bamboo, has been along side man in the most ancient of times when man first lit up his fireplace using wood and stone.
He gathered firewood to bring heat and security to his inhospitable time.
He then used wood to make his rudimentary tools to farm, to build his shelter, and create his first boat and oar to conquer the new world that was being awakened.
Soon wooden instruments crossed the land. Wooden staves accompanied travelers and all too soon they were turned into spears and other weapons. One day on a historical wooden cross love shouted back to us and changed our known world.
Wood has always had a special intrigue, an emanating warmth, mystery, and passion.
There is nothing in the world like it.
In this present age where we live so artificially, where Mr. Plastic is king, we wanted our site to give wood and bamboo its real place, a place of honor.
Flute: History
Further information: Paleolithic Flutes & Prehistoric Music
The oldest flute ever discovered, though this is disputed, may be a fragment of the femur of a juvenile cave bear, with two to four holes, found at Divje Babe in Slovenia and dated to about 43,000 years ago. In 2008 another flute dated back to at least 35,000 years ago was discovered in Hohle Fels cave near Ulm, Germany. The five-holed flute has a V-shaped mouthpiece and is made from a vulture wing bone. The researchers involved in the discovery officially published their findings in the journal Nature, in June 2009. The discovery is also the oldest confirmed find of any musical instrument in history. The flute, one of several found, was found in the Hohle Fels cavern next to the Venus of Hohle Fels and a short distance from the oldest known human carving. On announcing the discovery, scientists suggested that the "finds demonstrate the presence of a well-established musical tradition at the time when modern humans colonized Europe". Scientists have also suggested that the discovery of the flute may help to explain "the probable behavioral and cognitive gulf between" Neanderthals and early modern human. A three-holed flute, 18.7 cm long, made from a mammoth tusk (from the Geißenklösterle cave, near Ulm, in the southern German Swabia Alb and dated to 30,000 to 37,000 years ago, was discovered in 2004, and two flutes made from swan bones excavated a decade earlier (from the same cave in Germany, dated to circa 36,000 years ago) are among the oldest known musical instruments. Playable 9000-year-old Gudi (literally, "bone flute"), made from the wing bones of red-crowned cranes, with five to eight holes each, were excavated from a tomb in Jiahu in the Central Chinese province of Henan. Chinese women that played flutes, from the 12th-century Song Dynasty to the remake of the Night Revels of Han Xizai, were originally made by Gu Hongzhong (10th century). The earliest extant transverse flute is a chi (篪) flute discovered in the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng at the Suizhou site, Hubei province, China. It dates from 433 BC, of the later Zhou Dynasty. It is fashioned of lacquered bamboo with closed ends and has five stops that are at the flute's side instead of the top. Chi flutes are mentioned in Shi Jing, compiled and edited by Confucius, according to tradition. The Bible, in Genesis 4:21, cites Jubal as being the "father of all those who play the Ugab and the Kinnor". The former Hebrew term refers to some wind instrument, or wind instruments in general, the latter to stringed instruments or stringed instruments in general. As such, Jubal is regarded in the Judeo-Christian tradition as the inventor of the flute (a word used in some translations of this biblical passage). Some early flutes were made out of tibias (shin bones). The flute has also always been an essential part of Indian culture and mythology and the cross flute believed by several accounts to originate in India as Indian literature from 1500 BCE has made vague references to the cross flute. Although the flute has been dated to prehistoric times, Theobald Boehm is mainly responsible for making flutes very similar to modern flutes known today. It has appeared in different forms and locations around the world.
