A FLUTEMAKER'S
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Florida Bamboo Detective - How Flutemaking Bamboo Came to Florida

April 30, 2022

I have been a bamboo flutemaker for 51 years. As I got older I needed to know the story about how it arrived in Florida. For 10 years I have dug into the hidden past. Enjoy!...

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Flutemaker Ministries would like to help this family

June 4, 2021

 Flutemaker Ministries working with A Heart to Love like to help folks like this. The Story: Ana Julia Gonzalez has 4 children. Juan Carlos is 22 and is a hired worker when he finds work. The...

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Thank you! And Thank You!

March 20, 2021

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!

December 15, 2020

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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The 2020 Mercy Kids Provision Campaign

August 13, 2020

Flutemaker Ministries was born when my wife, Linda and I started supporting a rescue of children from a garbage dump in Nicaragua in 2006. With the help of donations we were able to build a children's home. One day...

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They Came Down My Street

July 30, 2020

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

July 4, 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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What in the World is Flutemaker Ministries doing?

December 10, 2019

It is such a joy to do something to help our needy world. Every month, with your help, Flutemaker Ministries supports A Heart to Love Foundation which enables them to bring food to 266 children with...

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The Train

November 11, 2019

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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How to improvise on your flute

October 15, 2019

Greetings from Erik the Flutemaker. This is an article that is quite overdue. If I can better help my customers to play that will be a delight for me, and a benefit for you. I do...

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The Story of Your Flute

September 6, 2019

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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History of the Flute

August 12, 2019

A four holed flute made from a femur bone of a bear was found in a cave in France. Flutes have been found in tombs in Egypt and depicted on their walls. Clay flutes and whistles...

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