FINISHED KIT FLUTES

Quiet Bears Cave Sign

KIT FLUTES FINISHED BY OUR CUSTOMERS
"May your hands breathe beautiful sound into the wood"

Alan's Finished Flute

Gail Ries' Finished Flute

Dwight,

Here is my finished flute, complete with beadwork. The dragon fetish was a Christmas gift from a friend last year. I had been waiting for the perfect flute to use it on. I am so happy with how it turned out. The voice is amazingly clear and bright. I will enjoy playing my music on it at the flute circle today.
Happy Holidays. Thanks again, so much!
Gail Ries

Phyllis Shaffer's Finished Flute

Dwight,

So excited to have finished my flute. I still need to add some beads to the ties.

Thanks for all your help.

Best wishes,

Phyllis Shaffer

Brent Adams Finished Flute

Quiet Bear Flutes,

I purchased one of your kit flutes at an Order of the Arrow (Boy Scout) Conclave back in September of 2008. It took me a few extra weeks to figure out how to carve the fetish, but everything else was done with Cleve there for support.

Cleve Friedman was offering your kit, advice and finish materials for any interested and I was one of few that took him up on his offer. I LOVE IT!

I’ve included a picture If you would like to include it as of one of your “Finished Kits” on your site.

Since then I’ve just recently found one of your Quiet Bear flutes at a Thrift shop. It needed a lot of TLC, fixing two cracks in the joints, and a new fetish. The original one was missing so I made one from some Western Red Cedar I had and re-glued the cracks. It’s great now and has a new chance to release more great songs.

Do you allow visitors to come see your shop and some of your finished flutes? Can you give me some details?

Thank You!
Brent Adams
Corvallis, OR

Kit Duncan
Dream Catcher Edition Flute
Key of B

John Tose Finished Drone Flute
Key of G

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I have decorated it as you can see with some Celtic knot work, which is actually a bird animorph though the creature's head is actually covered by the bindings for the totem - I did these as eagle talons. I have not seen anyone do this before.

It might seem incongruous to be mixing Celtic imagery with a native American flute but there is an old Welsh legend that in 1170, Prince Madoc sailed off to explore the Western ocean and came back again a year or so later having discovered a rich land. He took a hundred or so settlers with him this time for his return to America and they were never seen again. The legend has it that they established a colony in South East USA but were eventually defeated by the locals. The survivors were absorbed into neighboring tribes - believed by many to be the Mandans, who use skin-covered coracles just like the Welsh ones. That might just be wishful thinking though.

John Tose

Randy Veekners
finished Western Red
Cedar Flute and Alaskan Yellow
Cedar Flute.

Randy Veekners finsished Alaskan Yellow Cedar Flute

These are pictures of
Marianne Kambs
finished flute.

Marianne Kambs Finished Flute

Finished flute kit by Ben Shafer

QUIET BEAR FLUTES
Flutes from the Heart - for the Heart!

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