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BOOKS by Lew Paxton Price
Early History, Theory, Mathematics, and Influence of Flutes & Music
Native American Flute Types and Evolution
Recommended Native American Flute Books
Contrary to Amazon, whose people in my opinion are dedicated to creating a monopoly regardless of the methods used, these books are still in print and have been in print since they were first published. Suing Amazon is not cost effective and large bureaucratic bullies can be handled in other ways. I believe Amazon will probably continue to lie, either deliberately or inadvertently, and do its best to take over all the businesses it can. I have found that the legalities I would have to deal with in order to sign on with them are more than I care to follow. Lawyers and bureaucrats are best kept in the closet. I will admit that Amazon has created a number of great opportunities for the people it serves. It is a shame that Amazon is so against free enterprise.
These books are seldom available in bookstores. However, there are many sources on line other than Amazon which sell specialty items such as flutes and flute publications where you may possibly discover better bargains for the same books.
Early History, Theory, Mathematics,
and Influence of Flutes & Music
THE OLDEST MAGIC Copyright - 1995
Almost everything anyone ever wanted to know about musical scales, modes, keys, language, prehistory, folk flutes, and the uses of music and its influence upon our society since ancient times. Included are instructions for making various types of ancient flutes. This book is an aid to satisfying the most insatiable of curiosities in regard to music and music theory, as well as a means of exposing one to facts that have been kept from the general public through the years. This particular book has elicited the most praise from my readers through the years.
ISBN 0917578104 - $21.00
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Native American Flute Types and Evolution
NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN FLUTES - Copyright 1990
This is a small book on the flutes of the North American Indian, covering such things as their flute types, uses, evolution, religious connotations, etc. Original work, representing a year's research by a flutemaker/mathematician.
ISBN 0917578074 - $5.00
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Flute Theory and Math
More About Flute Theory SECRETS OF THE FLUTE - Copyright 1991
Covers the physics, math, and design of non-mechanical flutes and the non-mechanical part of mechanical flutes. This is original work and the subject material is not available from other sources at this time. It is ideal for the teaching of the musical science of flutes and other woodwinds, for use by professional flute designers, and for hobbyists.
ISBN 0917578082 - $15.00A number of copies of SECRETS OF THE FLUTE were mistakenly printed from misaligned but factually correct plates. Consequently, they are being sold at a discount. These are available for the price of $12.00 each.
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MORE SECRETS OF THE FLUTE - Copyright 1997
The sequel to Secrets of the Flute above, this book tells more about flute physics and math. The result of six more years of flute research, combined with the book above, this book allows the flutemaker to design the most extreme examples of flutes with accuracy, and is ideal for those who wish to have a total comprehension of the flute.
ISBN 0917578171 - $15.00
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Flutemaking and Using
1. CREATING AND USING THE NATIVE AMERICAN LOVE FLUTE - Copyright 1994
Tells how to design, craft, play, and pray the Native American Love Flutes of the more popular current varieties. This book is the foundation upon which the other books in the series are based and was originally written to be sufficient unto itself. Although the other books in this series allow one to expand his or her knowledge of flutemaking, they are not sufficient without having read this book first.
ISBN 0917578090 - $10.00
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Grandfather
2. CREATING AND USING GRANDFATHER'S FLUTE - Copyright 1995
The second book in the Love Flute series. Tells how to create and use one of the varieties of older flutes, gives tables and graphs to aid in optimizing and creating more varieties of new and old Native American flutes, and explains more about the creation and use of the Native American flute. The particular type of older flute featured here will not choke up from moisture as do the most of the contemporary types of native flutes, and its playing quality is unsurpassed. Furthermore, it is ideal for creating flutes from materials such as heat-treated bamboo which has a natural beauty of its own.
ISBN 0917578112 - $10.00
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3. CREATING AND USING OLDER NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTES - Copyright 1995
The third book in the love flute series. The older Native American flutes used tuning holes in the last stages of their creation. This book tells how to create and use flutes with tuning holes, how to compute and use equivalent diameters, gives tables and graphs on flutes with tuning holes, and tells more about the use of the flute.
ISBN 0917578139 - $10.00
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4. CREATING AND USING SMALLER NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTES - Copyright 1995
The fourth book in the love flute series. Tells the advantages of and how to create and use smaller Native American flutes, provides tables and graphs for creating smaller flutes, tells the nature of nodal interference and how to eliminate it, includes a chapter on ways to improve the appearance of any flute, and includes some philosophical comments.
ISBN 0917578147 - $10.00
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5. CREATING AND USING LARGER NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTES - Copyright 1998
The fifth book in the love flute series. Tells the advantages of, and how to create and use, larger Native American flutes, provides tables and graphs for creating larger flutes, explains the difficulties of larger flute design and how to work with them, gives ways to vary flute length without seriously affecting the sound, and includes some philosophical comments.
ISBN 0917578198 - $10.00
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6. CREATING AND USING THE LARGEST NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTES - Copyright 1998
The sixth book in the love flute series. Tells the advantages of, and how to create and use, the largest Native American flutes, provides tables and graphs for creating them, explains the difficulties of large flute design and how to work with them, and includes some philosophical comments.
ISBN 0917578201 - $10.00
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7. CREATING AND USING VERY SMALL NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTES - Copyright 1998
The seventh book in the love flute series. Tells the advantages of and how to create and use the smallest feasible full-working Native American flutes, provides designs for creating them (up to G# two above middle C), explains the difficulties of tiny flute design and how to work with them, and includes some philosophical comments. Tiny flutes are, by far, the most challenging of all flutes to design and craft.
ISBN 0917578228 - $12.00
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8. CREATING AND USING THE NATIVE AMERICAN CONCERT FLUTE - Copyright 1996
The eighth book in the love flute series. This is the most advanced book in the series, describing how to make an optimized Native American style flute which has a moisture-removing mechanism and independent adjustments for sound quality, transition point, and temperature. Includes a chapter called "Greatest of Secrets" which has universal significance. This book is not recommended unless the student is already familiar with flutemaking.
ISBN 0917578163 - $10.00
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When all eight of the Creating and Using series are ordered as a set, I am offering a customer discount of $9.00 for a total price including shipping, handling, etc. of $73.00 for the entire set.
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Ancient Astrology
DIMENSIONS IN ASTROLOGY - Copyright 1982 & 1986In 1981, an editor of two local newspapers, who had read and was fascinated by Astrology - The Cosmic Stradivarius, asked me to write a series of articles on ancient astrology which would be published weekly for one year under the title The Oldest Science. Later, the series was syndicated and ran in several other newspapers over the course of a few years. In 1986, the fifty-two articles were compiled and published in this little soft-cover book under a new title (Dimensions in Astrology).
ISBN 0917578099 - $9.00Ancient astrology is far different from modern "pulp" astrology, and the foundation of astrology has been found to be of a musical nature. It may also seem strange to consider astrology and music as branches of science. Yet, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Tycho Brahe, Johanne Kepler, and Sir Isaac Newton were all astrologers - and music is actually mathematics as experienced by the ear and the auditory portion of the brain.
Today, the fact that some of our prominent scientists were astrologers is kept from the public whenever possible. Much of the Old Testament in the Holy Bible was taken from documents written in Hebrew which were meant to be a time capsule teaching ancient science - but this is also kept from the public whenever possible, thus requiring one to have some ability at translating and decoding ancient Hebrew to discover the old truths.
There is a movement today to present more facts to the public by showing how real astrology works and why the ancient scientists (including the Judeans) used it so extensively. This book is part of that movement.
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ASTROLOGY - THE COSMIC STRADIVARIUS - Copyright 1974
For a long time, I was reluctant to place this book on this list. Trying to convince so-called scientists that astrology is a valid scientific discipline, when I have another battle going with them already, seems to be too much. However, when I looked on the web and discovered that a first copy of the "Strad" was on sale for over $49, it seemed that the cat was out of the bag. Also, it seems wrong to sell the book for such a high price when I still have some copies for the original price.
There is a family story about this book that should be told. It is the first book I ever wrote. I used an old IBM typewriter to make the master copies - quite a chore as compared to creating today's computer masters. And the real credit for the book ever being written goes to my mother. Mother was an amateur astrologer. She had done a lot of reading on her own and had found a mentor to teach her astrology. By the time I resigned my commission in the Air Force, she was becoming known for her new talent and was doing her best to interest me in that discipline. She knew that, as an Air Force navigator, I could learn quickly the calculations necessary to erect an astrology chart.
She had a difficult time with me because I had my Bachelor of Science degree, had been instructing line navigators, and knew that astrology was a "quack" science - that the stars could not influence me. However, I finally agreed to read a book she presented to me because I knew that if I were to read that astrology book, I could show her where it went wrong and she would stop bothering me with such nonsense.
As it turned out, the book was correct and I was wrong. The fact that astrology works piqued my curiosity and I began to check it out more thoroughly and do charts for people. I wanted to know why astrology works. In the process I devised a better way to erect astrology charts and began to decode some of the astrological secrets of the ancient Chaldean and Hebrew astrologers. Six years after I began my research I finished my notes enough to write this book on my findings.
The "Strad" was ahead of its time and not too many copies sold. Furthermore, those who could understand it reasonably well had to have a working knowledge of math, be able to comprehend astronomy and celestial mechanics to some degree, and care enough to learn the secrets of interpreting astrology charts. And since much of my research was the result of translating Hebrew from the Torah (the Hebrews were excellent astrologers), the usual variety of astrologer who used the old but newer Greek system had to learn a knew way of doing things.
It would be wise to read Dimensions in Astrology before attempting to read this book. The Cosmic Stradivarius contains secrets of Hebrew astrology, how it is a form of gestalt psychology, the ancient history of astrology, and more. It comes in a plastic "comb" binding, has 282 pages, and there will probably not be another printing once these copies are sold. Price $21.00
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ASTROLOGY - THE MUSIC OF LIFE - Copyright 1974 & 1984
After I published Astrology - The Cosmic Stradivarius, some friends told me it was too condensed and needed expanding. THE MUSIC OF LIFE is an expansion of the first third of the "Strad" and has better transitions. I began an expanded version of the second third of the "Strad" but never finished it. At the time, it was obvious that not enough interested people could handle the details in the "Strad" and that I would not get my investment back if tried to pursue it further.
Again, it would be wise to read Dimensions in Astrology before attempting to read this book. The Music of Life contains more about Hebrew astrology, how it is a form of gestalt psychology, the history of astrology, the meaning of symbols and myths, and more. The book has 351 pages and is softbound.
ISBN 09175780508 - $21.00
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Flute Design Computer Program
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Back to PVC Plastic Perhaps the most successful and convenient method for designing flutes is by computer. My computer design program was written by me during the course of six years. It allows one to tailor the flute to the individual and to complete several weeks of work in the space of less than ten minutes. The flute design program for Native American flutes is made to be used in conjunction with the flutemaking series or the theory books found above. Two books especially are recommended to be used in conjunction with the flute design program. These are (1) Creating and Using the Native American Love Flute, and (2) Secrets of the Flute. The more one understands the information in my flute books, the better will be the flutemaker's ability to use the program. Secrets of the Flute is available for a time in a discounted version.
The flute design program includes subprograms most suitable for designing Native American style flutes in keys from E above middle C to the C above middle C, and in many different tunings - and has certain automatic functions which aid in reducing the time involved. It has another subprogram for advanced work in the most common tuning for Native American style flutes - especially very low or very high flutes. Subprograms are also included for making straightbore shakuhachis, kenas, kavals, diagonals, and transverse flutes. This program is not available to retailers. The direct discount price: $65.00.
At one time, there were three different options for the Flute Design Program. If you are a registered customer who bought either option one or two and wish to upgrade to option three (this one), please send me $10.00 and I will send the current program to you in CD form.
The program options come on two floppy disks for those who have a 3.5" floppy drive, or a single CD for those who have a CD drive. The CD version is recommended if you have a CD drive. You should know how to copy the contents into folders ("directories" if you have an old DOS operating system). The program options are based upon a DOS spreadsheet which runs fine in DOS or Windows operating systems and can be used in a Mac system with a "translating" program (of which there are at least four at this time). The later versions of Windows without a DOS base must be provided with a DOSBOX program which is available free on line using a short download.
Substandard Flute Programs
My flute design program was created using the laws of mathematics and physics. These laws do not change regardless of the number of bells, whistles, and advertising found on other flute design programs which are essentially less capable copies of my original series of subprograms.
My program is the first to use computer design. It is copyrighted and registered. I could sue some of those who have produced their own versions of my work, but that is more time-consuming than it is worth for now. Besides that, karma has a way of dealing with them whether they believe in reincarnation or not.
What is most irritating to me is that the substandard programs presented to the public are exactly that (substandard). Furhermore, either by omission or by insinuation, they publish lies, adding insult to injury. The perpetrators have not spent the time I have on understanding how a flute works. They were either too lazy or too stupid to read and comprehend what I have written in The Oldest Magic, Secrets of the Flute, More Secrets of the Flute, and my Creating and Using series of books. My flute design program correctly incorporates the knowledge found in these books. Altering that knowledge (garbage in) provides bad flutes (garbage out).
Some Examples of Misinformation
1. A curved surface where playing holes are found is quite different to a flat surface. Therefore, Lew Price's flute program is incorrect because it uses a flat surface in its calculations. This is a lie by omission because it does not tell the complete truth about the program. The program is absolutely correct and even takes finger shape into account. The program has not been changed in this regard. It has been the same from before the time it was sold for use by the public.
2. So-and-so knows more than Price about fluid dynamics, so we use those fluid dynamics to have a better program than Price's. It is always possible to find someone who claims he knows more than someone else about a subject. Proving it is another story. What I found firsthand is correct because the flutes it designs actually work. You can check my resume' to see what kind of education led to my 30 plus years of flute research.
3. Flute hole placements are a compromise. This is a red herring. One should study the math of the Pythagorean scale, the just scale, the tempered scale, the human ear, the human brain, and how they all relate to one another to understand why this is a red herring. The Oldest Magic explains these things in detail.
4. The friction and shape of the flute bore make an appreciable difference in the hole placements. The flute is not a reed instrument like a clarinet or a horn of any kind. This means than it does not have more air entering at the mouth end than at the foot. I have experimented and know for a fact that the flute does not change any normally detectable amount based upon friction or shape of the the bore.
I first began research on flutes because I could not find very much information on them that is correct. What was supposedly known about flutes was incorrect, and experiments proved this to be true. Since a lot of misinformation was published before I began my work, there is still plenty of misinformation being passed around from that time.
Further Details on Flute Design Program
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When ordering the flute design program, you should specify which operating system you will be using for the flute design program, and whether you want a CD version or the two 3.5" floppy disks.
Books and Program
We do not accept credit cards, Pay Pal, Western Union, or forms of payment other than those shown in the paragraph below. We do accept checks or money orders from U.S. banks. In some countries, postal international money orders may be available and we accept those when they are made out in U.S. dollars. For orders from customers outside the United States or customers who want to use their credit cards, my flute and music books (but not my physics books, astrology books, or computer program) are available from:
The Oregon Flute Store
90944 Leashore Drive
Vida, Oregon 97488Website: http://www.oregonflutestore.com/home/ofs2/smartlist_80/flute_making_resources.html
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http://www.oregonflutestore.com/home/ofs2/smartlist_17/crafting_making_the_native_american_flute_series_b.htmlFor my books on physics and ancient astrology, customers outside the United States should e-mail me to ask for a method of payment.
To order from me, send your name, mailing address, a list of the items you are ordering, and your check or money order in U.S. dollars made out to Lew Price (PO Box 88, Garden Valley, CA 95633, USA). Please do not do what the person in the next paragraph did. Flute people are usually exceptionally trustworthy and straightforward - and I treat them accordingly.
A man sent me a personal check. I sent him his order right away because it takes a long time for the bank to process checks. He then stopped payment on his check without telling me, adding insult to injury when I was charged for his check. I am always willing to help with the use of the computer program when someone tells me - and if someone is not simply trying to copy the program and send it back, I will refund the appropriate dollars. However, if someone does what John Martin did and then curses at me like he did after I found out the hard way, that person will be provided with free publicity. Eventually, John did pay for the books I sent him and he sent back the program stating that he could not use it due to his inability. The program I sent worked perfectly and could have been used easily, but he never asked about any procedure that he did not understand - which makes me suspicious since he had all the instructions.
The above prices include both shipping and handling for customers within the United States. Customers in Canada should send $2.00 more per order for additional shipping costs. Customers in countries other than the U.S. and Canada should inquire for additional shipping costs and other means of payment when appropriate. Customers in California should include a sales tax of eight percent (yes, it is more but I prefer to round it to eight percent).
Unless otherwise specified and paid for accordingly, orders will be sent via U.S. postal first class mail or international air mail. Orders will be insured when possible. Due to the increased possibility of mail theft during the holidays, orders will not be sent between December 6 and January 2 (the holiday season). Please do NOT send cash in the mail.
Questions may be sent via postal mail or via e-mail. lewprice36@gmail.com or lewprice@softcom.net
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RECOMMENDED NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE BOOKS
(Not sold here - See places to buy them below)
FLUTE MAGIC by Tim R. Crawford, edited by Dr. Kathleen Joyce-Grendahl, RainDance Publications.Available from:
Windwalker
P O Box 946
Arch Cape, OR 97110E-mail: tcarchcape@yahoo.com or
RainDance Publications
3351 Mintonville Point Drive
Suffolk, VA 23434E-mail: RainDanceBooks@AOL.COM or INAFA@AOL.COM.
LEARNING MADE EASY by Neoka Falk, New World Publishing Company.
Available from:
New World Publishing Company
P O Box 530984
St. Petersburg, FL 33784.Website: http://www.neoka.net
BENEATH THE RAVEN MOON by Mary Youngblood.
Mary YoungbloodAvailable from:
The Oregon Flute Store
90944 Leashore Drive
Vida, Oregon 97488Website: http://www.oregonflutestore.com
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