This Japanese end-blown bamboo flute, the shakuhachi, is traditionally made from the root stalk of the bamboo plant, giving the flute a slightly richer, sweeter tone, and an aesthetic quality unmatched by any other flute. (Feng shui practitioners will say the root also holds more "chi".)

Our roots are traditional high quality madake, cured for years before beginning the more difficult process of creating these beautiful instruments.

This concert-quality flute is tuned to high specifications, in traditional minor pentatonic scales, using digital quartz tuners, with close to two, or more, registers of range. Most flutes have in line fingering.

Each instrument comes with full warranty and complete instructions. A flute bag is also included.

The alto flutes range in size from 20 to 29 inches long, and are pitched in the keys of D, Db, C, Bb, and A. See prices under "Options" listings. The "D" instrument (~20 inches long) is the traditional size, and the "C" flute (24 inches long) is the next most common size.

PLEASE NOTE: The prices of these flutes include shipping!