Silent Auction

Introducing the new, original  Deep Mystic Flute with Ez-ReachTM ! Innovative fipple design produces beautiful tone and shortens flute. Low profile and length is compact for travel. Finger holes are close together. No adjustment of sound block needed. Condensation in air slot can easily be cleared by just sharply blowing through. Get clear notes or breathy notes by raising or lowering inner jaw while blowing. Vibrant, decorative accent of dichroic glass by DeRuby. Accurately tuned.

Value: $350

Rick Dunlap & Linda Gonzales   
VisionHawk Music

The Moyo (Heart) Drum is a handcrafted pentatonic “tank” drum. The Moyo Drum can be played with your hands or with mallets. It has a magnificent chime tone in the Key of D.

 Value: $375

Rich Halliburton

Mouthpiece is bald cypress between layers of Central American canarywood, with cypress horse fetish w/ 6mm turquoise cab and two 2mm faceted African champagne VVS diamonds, set as eyes. , and base of Oklahoma red cedar.

Inlay: 6mm, 1ct. faceted Brazilian azotic topaz, flanked by two 4mm abalone dots. Compression chamber inlay: canarywood w/ 12mm natural coin pearl accents. Finger holes: four 4mm abalone dots, as well as a diamond cut abalone cab between each set of three holes.

Value: $220

Dwight "Quiet Bear" & Linda Lind

Flute is in the key of A minor . The end caps of Maple have a ring of Paduke separating them from the Australian Lace Wood body. The block Is a Deer antler rosette inlaid with Turquoise resting on Maple Burl. The flutes overall length is 23" and it has a 3/4" bore. As with all our flutes, it comes with a protective fleece bag.

Value $250.00

This flute comes with a Pendleton wool and leather fringed soft case with carrying strap valued at $95.

Flute is in the key of "F" and is hand-crafted from Tennessee Red Cedar.  The flute and block are decorated with a combination of pyrography and hand-painting. and a swirled dichroic glass cabochon has been added.  This flute has a 7/8" bore and is 25 3/4" long.

Value $325.00

Keith Oberdieck

Keith brings his many years of working with precision German engineering and love of woodworking to making native flutes.  Keith's mission is to produce a finely tuned flute with a good tone that can be packed and taken along anywhere a flute player goes. He is currently making a Woodland style flute, and primarily uses Poplar, Alder, and Mahogany from wood he hand selects and recycles from a friend's cabinet shop. He carves his birds out of solid surface counter top material. He decorates the flutes by burning, and with deer skin laces.

Fleece sleeves and his wife's "Accompniment for Native Flute" CD will be included.

Keith is donating 2 flutes valued at $145.00 each.

Brent Haines

Brent is donating a gorgious flute in the key of G, and is made from Eastern Red Cedar and Cocobolo, with an arch block.

Value $430.00

Duet Clay Flute

This Duet Clay Flute is two flutes in one. The sounds coming from
these flutes create an astounding sound when played together or
separately.

It is replica of the type used in Pre-Columbian Culture throughout
Mesoamerica. Each flute is tuned after firing. This flute is in the
key of (D with A). It measures 12" long x 2 wide and comes with a
leather strap.

Value $145.00

Rattle Gourd
Burned, Painted and Adorned with Beads.

Vivian Helena Aumond Capone is a Fiber, Gourd and Photography Artist. She hand dyes all her own fabrics for Art Quilts, scarves, socks and jewelry. Her Gourd designs are first burned in and then painted or left natural.. Her donation scarf is in wonderful Orange Fall Colors. The little hand Rattle Gourd, was designed, details are burned in, and then painted,.. beads and wax linen are added. Vivian is a well known artist in the mountain area, and participates with Sierra Art Trails in the Open Studio Tour October 11th & 12th. For further information please check out the web site.

Scarf Value $35.00

Gourd Value: $25

Key of F#, hand crafted
a sunflower

Hand crafted from a Sunflower in F# .  Both end caps are made from purple heart with two yellow heart rings and a purple heart ring in between.  The sound chamber is made with a bamboo inlay, and the block is made from aromatic cedar in the shape of a Sunflower.  

Value $250

Annie

These drums are musical art.  Each of these one-of-a-kind instruments are made from organically grown gourds:  hand selected, hand cleaned and hand painted. A beautiful and lightweight instrument that can be played with the Native American flute or any other instrument.

Value $125.00

dg Hatch

This Double Flute, is in the the Key of F# and B (a 5th apart).  The overall length is 23" with 7/8" bores.  It's built of a solid piece of Alaskan Yellow Cedar with Incense Cedar end-caps.  The fetish also of Incense Cedar with an inlaid Turquoise and Pipe Stone Bear print.  The splitting edges are inlaid Fossilized African Amber.  

Value $500.00

Bill is offering a Hand -beaded Flute wrap mounted on double contrasting leather with glass beaded fringe plus a glass beaded thong and an exotic feather.

He will also offer the choice of receiving a coupon that allows the winner to exchange for any other wrap in his collection plus corresponding thong, or he will custom make a full wrap set to match their chosen flute.

Value $72.00

Cherie will be donating a hand painted TOTEM FLUTE BLANKET for this Silent Auction. It will be hold six (6) flutes. Bag shown is an "example".

Value $125

Some of the very characteristic bark has been left on this unsplit Ponderosa Pine branch flute, except where the sound chamber wall has been sanded down at the tone holes, creating a nice contrast with the finely finished, exposed grain.  All knots are unchecked and finely finished as well, each a window into the heart of the tree.  Measuring 16 3/4", this branch fute is concert tuned to a mid range B minor and plays the pentatonic modes 1 & 4 as well as the gypsy scale, with four in tune, upper octave notes.  American bison lacing with red horn and white bone beads holds the bird to the nest.   This flute comes with it's own stand, made of Ponderosa Pine as well, along with a nice fleece drawstring bag and a "Playing and Caring for Your Dryad Flute" booklet.

valued at $275.00

Jon Sherman

Frank Saxton, Earth Photographer, is donating
a framed photograph titled "Cherry Blossom
With Raindrops".

The photograph is an 8" x 8", one of a kind original, signed and with a certificate of authenticity, matted and framed in white to 18" x 24".

valued at $200.