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The underlying
purpose in my flute journey is to encourage and
enable more people to hear the instrument's
sound and in particular to listen to the tunes
of traditional native american songs played on
the flute.
While many songs
have too wide a range to be transposed
satisfactorily for the flute, there are many
that are suitable. When I find the time, I carry
out at a transposition exercise and add the
resulting 'score' in Nakai tab to the uguna
flutes song book with flute outlines showing
finger positions. Every purchaser of one of my
flutes receives a a copy of the song book CD -
and I also seem to give many away. If you want
to buy a song book CD on its own, drop me an
e-mail, the cost is ten pounds plus whatever
postage is to your address.
By the end of
2011 there were over 90 songs in the book,
covering all degrees of difficulty from very
simple, but nonetheless satisfying, to more
taxing. The CD carries numerous images of
flutes, plus: the song book in PDF format, the
individual scores in PDF format, my flute notes
in PDF format, and a computer-generated MP3 file
of each of the tunes from the book. In a couple
of cases I've recorded the flute part with a
simple percussion accompaniment and have also
included the drum track by itself as an aid to
learning.
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