Every care, both to craftsmanship and detail, goes into creating a Waking Spirit Flute. Banding and End Caps are taken beyond just sticking a few pieces of wood together. All banding and end caps are meticulously crafted and inserted into the flute body thus reducing, many times, the number of joins necessary and enabling absolute strength. You may also notice from the photos that wood grains all run the length of the flute which, again, increases the strength and durability of the instrument.

One of the major advantages of creating flutes in this very professional way is that the entire internal playing area of the instrument is created from one wood type only, regardless of how much banding or how many end caps the flute has, which stabilizes tonal and sound qualities. This major technique, which has been pioneered by Vance Pennington (Waking Spirit Flutes), lifts the Native American Flute out of the 'Amateur' class of instruments into the world of high class and quality instruments such as those found in any world class orchestra or musical entity.

Any flute maker who genuinely knows how to create a quality instrument is fully aware of length to bore ratios coupled with all the other mathematical calculations necessary when designing a first class flute. Such calculations play a very important role when creating flutes in the way described on this page so each instrument is created to the most accurate measurements attainable to bring you the ultimate quality that money can buy, at no additional cost!

A typical example of a multi-banded, end capped flute by Vance Pennington (Waking Spirit Flutes) created utilizing the methods shown above.