A FLUTEMAKER'S
STORIES

Thank you! And Thank You!

I want to take this opportunity to say thank you for your amazing help during my recent fundraiser for 12 Outhouses and if there was any money left over to help a former pastor who is father...

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Help is on the way!

Thank you for all the late fund raiser shopping and donations given which allowed us to provide $7,410 today December 15th with 65 beds that were washed away in Hurricanes Eta and Iota in Northern Nicaragua where our...

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They Came Down My Street

Dearest Bamboo VIP: You are invited to an exclusive lunch and Round Table to discuss the Japanese plant Taiho Chiku known in 1886 as Bambusa Argentea Striata in Florida.  All my special guests have not only touched the...

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2020

I think we all can agree that we entered 2020 wanting to be well, happy and be a blessing in these next 10 years. Then Suddenly the Pandemic! Uh Oh.... Our hearts go out to the...

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The Train

Someone once said, “A dream, is a vision in the night and a vision, is a dream, in the day.”I don’t know what I had, perhaps my soul was seeing what I was feeling in pictures....

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The Story of Your Flute

After four decades of harvesting bamboo in Florida for flutes, I began to ask the question, "How did this get here". Even the old-timers could not answer. After 4 years of researching, I have become the "Erik the Flute-maker...

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