Dana Ross- Falcon flutes

Here's an interesting story from 2009 about the flutes Dana makes.

probably made during a Pow Wow so you have to listen in between the drums.

Dana Ross

He lives in Morganton Georgia his company is called Falcon Flutes and has Chickasaw blood. At this flute maker I bought the first flute from America. Dana had donated the flute to charity for free. His flutes play very lightly and all intermediate notes outside the pentatonic scale are easy to play

2014 Nr. 010 Am

The sound

The first flute from the America 2014

The flute is made of aromatic cedar the block of Alaskan yellow cedar

2016 Nr. 011 Drone flute GGC

The sound

This one is made of Tulip Poplar and Alaskan Yellow Cedar flute actually consists of 3 flutes by placing the caps in a different hole the tone of the middle flute can be adjusted a nice piece of craftsmanship that takes some practice to play. Dana took the pictures of making the flute.

Aromatic cedar

Because many flutes are made of Aromatic Cedar

here's Cherokee's story about the Cedar Tree

Story told by Jim fox lives in Alabama.

Long ago, when the Cherokee people were new to Earth, they thought life would be much better if there was never a night. They begged the Ouga (Creator) that it could always be day and that there would be no darkness.

The Creator heard their voices and ended the night and it was always day. Soon the forest was overgrown. It became difficult to walk and find the path. The people toiled for many hours in the gardens, trying to keep the weeds between the corn and other food plants. It got hot, very hot and so on, day after long day. The people began to have trouble sleeping and became hot-tempered and quarreled among themselves.

Not many days had passed before the people realized that they had made a mistake and again they begged the Creator. 'Please,' they said, 'we made a mistake in asking that it is always day. Now we think it must always be night.' The Creator pondered this new request and thought that men may be right, although all things were created in two.

... for our day and night represent life and death, good and evil, times of plenty and times of famine. The Creator loved the people and decided to make them night all day long as they requested.

The day ended and night fell on the earth. Soon the crops stopped growing and it became very cold. The people spent much of their time collecting wood for the fires. They couldn't see to hunt for meat, and because no crops grew, it wasn't long before the people were cold, weak, and very hungry. Many of the people died.

The people had enough to eat and there was not much disease. The people treated each other with compassion When you smell or look at the scent of the cedar while standing in the forest, remember that if you are Tsalagi {Cherokee}, you are looking at your ancestor.

According to tradition, the wood of the cedar tree contains powerful protective spirits for the Cherokee. Many carry a small piece of cedar wood in their medicine pouches that are worn around the neck. According to tradition, the wood of the cedar tree contains powerful protective spirits for the Cherokee.

Freeze give in

Cupressus nootkatensis or the Alaska yellow cedar has been used for the blocks of the drone. A legend among the Nootka peoples of the Hesquiaht First Nation tells of the origin of the Nootka cypress. In the legend, a raven meets three young women drying salmon on the beach. He asks the women if they are afraid of being alone, if they are afraid of bears, wolves and other animals. Every woman answered "no". But when asked about owls, the women were indeed afraid of owls. Hearing this, the trickster raven hid in the woods and called an owl. The terrified women ran up the mountains, but turned into Nootka cypress when they were out of breath. According to the Nootka, that's why the Nootka cypress grows on the sides of mountains, and also why the bark is silky like a woman's hair, the young trunk is smooth like a woman's body.