What's New on Flutopedia

Here's some recent additions to Flutopedia - most recent items at the top:

• Greatly expanded Warble page.
• Added more info and recording of Nasca culture bone flutes to The Development of Flutes in the Americas.
• New version of NAFlutomat with user interface improvements and basic instructions designed for first-time users.
• Updates to the Breath Pressure in Native American Flutes and Ethnic Wind Instruments page.
• New sub-reference list specifically for papers related to acoustics and psycho-acoustics.
• New sub-reference list specifically for papers related to physiology.
• New Drill Bit Conversion Table, for convenience.
• New page on the Circle of Fifths.
• New page on Care and Maintenance.
• New page on The Warble.
• New page on The Flutes of Pueblo Bonito.
• Substantial expansion of the tunings on the NAF Tunings Map.
• New version of the Font package - now at version 1.12.
• Set up new discussion groups: Facebook group and Yahoo newsgroup.
• Substantial overhaul to the Glossary, including placing tooltips over every glossary definition.
• New page on Piano Accompaniment for Native American Flutes.
• New page on The Breckenridge Flute.
• Huge new page: Flutes of Gilgamesh and Ancient Mesopotamia.
• Added new song Taps.
• New page on the Native American Flutes in the David T. Vernon Indian Arts Collection at the Colter Bay Museum.
• New page on Electronic Tuners.
• New song Colors of the Wind.
• New Simple Guitar Accompaniment for Native American Flute page.
• The new, multi-purpose Reference Drones page.
• New song Kayowajineh.
• New song Hon Shirabe.
• New fingering charts for Mode 2/5, Anasazi, and Anasazi Seven tunings.
• New song Sakura Sakura.
• Expanded bibliography of flute crafting resources.
• Added Dave Carter's When I Go to the Poetry and Readings for Memorial Services page.
• Added Alan Cohen's The African Song of Soul to the Readings and Quotations on Music page.
• Greatly expanded font package by four more fonts.
• Improvement of accessibility for blind and limited-sight players by creating text for finger diagram images that vocalizes well in screen readers. See the general discussion on the new Accessibility Issues and Finger Diagrams page.
• New versions of Blank Tablature PDFs, including mouth-down and John Ellis's finger-diagram only sheets.
• New archaeological flute (L'Anse Amour bone flute from Labrador dating to 5580 BCE, the Grand Gulch Flute, and the Mammoth Cave reed flute in Kentucky) on the Indigenous North American Flutes page.
• Additional ornaments on the Ornaments page.
• Discussion of how the Organ-Pipe U. S. patent #5,520 might apply to Native American flutes on the Organ Pipes page.
• Greatly expanded the literature section, dividing the old poetry page into six sub-pages.
• New diatonic version of Amazing Grace.
• Most songs is the Song Book with new versions of the sheet music.
• Six new songs in the Song Book.
• Added specific pages for subsets of the humongeous References page: Archaeology, Audio Recordings, Crafting, Ethnomusicology, Flute Playing Instruction, Poetry, Song Books, and Video Recordings.
• New Finger Hole Placement page, giving an overview of finger hole placement methods and Grandfather tuning.
• New Pitch-to-Freqency calculator.
• New What Should I Play? page.
• New Basic NAF Design and Color of Sound tools.
• Significant updates to NAFlutomat and the CrossTune calculator.
• New page of three O. W. Jones interviews.
• New Beltrami Flutes page (earliest Native American flute currently known).
• Additions to the NAF Legends page.
• Substantial additions to the Museum Roster.
• New poems by Grace Purdie Moon and Rumi on the NAF Poetry page
• New Steps and Leaps page.
• New From Scales to Songs page.
• New (minimal) Branch Flutes page.
• Complete overhaul of the Amazing Grace songbook page.
• New Harmonic Pairings page.
• Substantial overhaul of the Fingering Charts.
• Four legends added to Legends and Myths of the Native American Flute.
• New section on the American Horse Winter Count and The-Man-Who-Owns-the-Flute.
• Substantial overhaul of Getting Out of a Rut.
• New How to Build a Simple North American Style Flute by Donn Shands on the Crafting Native American Flutes page.
• New historical info on The Huron Carol.
• New page Selecting a Microphone for Recording by Barry Higgins added.
• Flutes shown in left-side navigation panel.
• The new Brief History of the Native American flute page.
• A complete reorganization of the content and the new navigation bar (top menu).
• The East-Texas Flute, from Robert Gatliff.