I guess I am obsessed … Since reading a book called “The Stone and the Flute” by Hans Bemmann, I am dreaming of building a flute made of silver (Sterling Silver). In this blog I will post my progress until I will get there.
I have worked with wood my whole life which made it easier to build my first native american style flutes. Meanwhile I am pretty happy with my design and the flutes sound very nice.
But I have never really worked with metal and need to start from scratch. This journey will be exciting but probably also frustrating from time to time. So please be patient with me and let’s learn everything necessary to end up with a great sounding flute made of pure silver.
I will share every step of my way, so you can learn with me and possibly skip some of my mistakes …
My target is to make a flute in Gm4 pentatonic. This way the flute won’t be too big/heavy and I already have some experience with G flutes using a 20 mm bore diameter. The flute will be something around 500-550mm in length, at least if I look at my wooden examples. I don’t know yet if something will require to make it longer … but I guess not.
My goal is to have the final silver flute in my hands latest at Christmas 2023. Let’s see …
