Magic Flute in F#m

Dryad
MAGIC FLUTE
in F#m

embedded with blue Aura Crystals

This newly available flute has emerged from the Dryad flute shop as an expression of natural magic, comprised of these four special qualities:

Tobacco -
Nicotiana glauca is the only tobacco species that grows to tree size, making it large enough to be crafted into a flute. As a tobacco, this plant embodies a sacred quality recognized by many traditional cultures—the ability to carry human thought and prayer into the spirit world. When this sacred plant is used with reverence, tobacco can open the door of communication to those finer dimensions of life.

Crystals -
Eleven blue aura quartz crystals are embedded into the spiraling nodes of this tree tobacco, like buds on a branch. For many spiritual and metaphysical traditions handed down through the ages, quartz crystals have the ability to store, amplify, and transmit energy and information. They are seen as being alive! Mainstream science has demonstrated that quartz crystals exhibit the piezoelectric effect, a property utilized in thousands of electronic technologies. They also contribute their special properties to this very special magic flute. When the column of air within the flute's sound chamber, energized by the player's breath, vibrates, creating the sound, it also vibrates, through conductive resonance the flute's wooden walls, exerting a gentle force on the embedded crystals. Due to the piezoelectric effect, this causes a very slight electrical charge energetically activating the crystals to amplify the healing intention of the vibration. And so, through a fusion of physics and metaphysics the player is not only playing the flute, they are also playing the crystals!

Respect -
Tree tobacco, native to South America, has naturalized all around the southwestern region of Turtle Island (North America). This particular plant, along with others like her, was growing on a nature preserve managed by a conservancy with which I volunteer. Due to Nicotiana glauca being non-native to the plant community of the preserve, the conservancy was planning on removing them as part of their restoration efforts and I was given permission to cut and take many of them home to my shop. Before cutting them, though, I asked their permission as well, offering them a second life as a flute. And so it was an honorable harvest, from a beautiful nature preserve, gathered in a respectful way.

Listening -
This flute embodies the culmination of twenty years crafting flutes from tree branches. Over those years I've learned to listen to the wood, to the bark and to the spirit of the tree within. A tree that had already grown most of the flute, so why not allow her creation to continue? This vision is what prompted the name Dryad—as a way to honor the true "maker" of these flutes. When I started working with tree tobacco, wondering what approach to take with an especially beautiful and sacred individual of this species, crystals came to mind. And if that's what the tree tobacco wanted, that's what I was going to give her. And with that, the Dryad MAGIC FLUTE was born. For I am only an apprentice to the trees. There is balance in that, I think. And a bit of magic as well.

Additional Flute Qualities

As with all Dryad flutes:

● Both the air and sound chambers were bored out intact, maintaining the natural strength and beauty of the branch, with no glued seams to ever fail.

● A drain hole has been drilled down through the wall of the air chamber allowing any excess moisture that may pool inside (especially on a cold day) somewhere else to go other than up into the windway. The lacing covering the hole will absorb this moisture, so make sure the lacing stays centered over the hole. As further wetout protection, the block has been fitted with a rot-resistant red cedar shoe, to absorb moisture that condenses in the windway.

Unique to this flute:

● Besides the red cedar shoe on the bottom of the block, red cedar has also been inlaid into the floor of the windway, as further wetout protection. This is the first Dryad flute to offer this feature and it has worked so well that I will continue this design improvement on future flutes.

● Chrysocolla has been inlaid into the two small surface checks at the foot of the flute, blending nicely with the blue aura crystals.

● Elk lacing holds the block securely to the nest. Make sure to keep it tied snuggly over the drain hole.

SOLD

$3,700.00

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