Turtle Mound Flutes

Our Knock-About Flutes (made from the branch of the rugged poly-vinyl tree) are ideal for the rough treatment of children, back-packing, kayaking, or just carrying around in the back seat or trunk of your car (where extreme temperatures can crack or otherwise damage a quality wooden flute). 

Each Knock-About Flute is individually crafted from heavy-duty “schedule 80” electrical conduit and carefully tuned to the indicated key. The walls are thick enough to allow the flattening a solid nest area with material left for the flue to be cut into the nest body, and to make a workable “ramp” at the “south” end of the True Sound Hole (TSH). This makes a “sound mechanism” that is identical to that of a wooden flute. We tune our Knock-About Flutes to the same rigid standards as our wooden flutes. In fact, as the PVC is more difficult to work than many woods, it actually takes longer to tune a Knock-About than a wooden flute. The result is a flute voice that is virtually indistinguishable from that of a wooden flute to most people.

Each flute also has a hardwood wooden mouthpiece (cherry or walnut) to, not only more closely resemble the playing of a wooden flute, but also prevent you from having to put your lips directly onto the PVC. Each Knock-About Flute is made in the woodlands style (with the flue in the flute body) with a simple, low-profile eastern red cedar wooden fetish that is attached with deerskin laces.