Premium Carnatic Flutes for Flautists at all Skill Levels
India’s Best Handcrafted Carnatic Flutes
Indiran Flute
Indiran Flute
India’s Best Handcrafted Carnatic Flutes
Premium Carnatic Flutes for Flautists at all Skill Levels
Music Master
Online Flute Store
This festive, gift yourself the best Carnatic Flutes
Finding a perfectly tuned Carnatic bamboo flute is always a challenge. At Music Master you can be 100% assured that you will get that ‘perfect carnatic flute’.
Welcome to online flute store at Music Master, the best place to buy premium handmade carnatic flutes. We offer entire range of carnatic flutes or venu or pulankuzhal. These flutes are suitable for flautists of all levels, from beginner to professional.
Our flutes are concert ready that is tuned to 440Hz. In case you need any special tuning please do write to us at support@musicmaster.in. We can customise to your specific needs.
We would say these carnatic flutes will be the last ones you’ll ever need. Once you get one scale of Indiran’s flute, you’ll want to buy all the scales for its sweet tones.
Indiran’s Carnatic Flute Review
In this video carnatic flute guru Mr. Sai Prabhakar reviews D# Carnatic flute made by Mr. Indiran
BUY CARNATIC FLUTE ONLINE
Buying Carnatic Flutes should be fun and easy. At Music Master we will do all the heavy lifting so that you don’t have to worry about anything. Here is how it works….
1.Whatsapp ‘Flute’
Whatsapp ‘Flute’ to 9789897600. We will send you a professional photograph and Video of the flute that you will receive.
2. Place Order
Select all the scales you want and pay us. We accept all International currency.
3. Shipping
Free Shipping all over India. Courier charges apply to all international locations.
Quality Check on Carnatic Flutes
All the flutes that we receive at Music Master are 100% quality checked by a professional flute player. Each note of the flute is checked and we despatch only flutes that are perfectly tuned.
Once any customer whatsapp us ‘Flute’ we will send videos and pictures of the quality checked actual flute that you will receive. We will send other key specifications like weight and length of the flute. In fact you can receive video of many flutes and all the scales and decide before making us the payment.
Once you shortlist the flutes, you can pay us and we will despatch the same flute that you shortlist.
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Music Master Guarantee
We want you to love playing our flutes: the notes, tone and overall feel. That is the reason why we want give 100% guarantee on all our flutes. If you ever find any note not in tune, we will give you a free replacement of another Indiran’s flute (same scale) or refund your full money. No questions asked. We just want you to be happy shopping with us. This is applicable for 30 days from the date you buy.
What Makes Indiran"s Flute So Good
1. Selection & Seasoning of Bamboo
The wood is selected from the finest quality bamboo. Backed by 30+ years of selecting wood and making the finest quality ‘bamboo’ flutes.
2. Playing higher notes
While you can play one octave notes, you can also play higher notes in the next octave easily. Making such flute is an art and Indiran has mastered this art over a long period of time.
3. Perfect Tuning
One at a time. On average Mr.Indiran produces only around 80-100 flutes/ month. Each flute is unique and is a master piece tuned to exactly 440 Hz. and is concert ready.
Wonder, how Indiran makes India’s best Carnatic Flutes?
1. Selection and Seasoning of Bamboo
The fist step is selection of the finest quality bamboo. The bamboo ideal for flutes can be got from ‘select’ places in Kerala & Karnataka. Mr.Indiran travels to these places once in a month to select the bamboo. Note that all the bamboo pieces will be selected only if they have natural nodes (Naturally closed at on end of the bamboo). The wood has to be of certain thickness.
At this stage the bamboo is green and raw. Since the wood is fresh there will be a fair amount of moisture content. The bamboo is let to dry approximately for 10-15 days at room temperature without sunlight and moisture.
2. Wood Thickness
In this step special oils are applied on the wood and the wood is heat treated to remove the balance moisture. The wood becomes hard so that it can last for a long time. In this process the wood turns into beautiful dark natural colour. This is done piece by piece.
The average temperature of Kanyakumari is 26*C making it an ideal place to manufacture flutes. During this process, the wood looses fair amount of moisture naturally and close to 50% of flutes will get bent. These ‘bent’ flutes are unfit for further process. The balance flute depending upon the size and length are then segregated and marked what are the scales that can be made from them. (Interesting fact: The bamboo in this stage will be turn from green to white colour.
3. Tuning a Carnatic Flute – The magic of Mr.Indiran
The thickness of all bamboos are not same. So depending upon the guage and the size and position of node, Mr.Indiran decides on the position and size of blowing holes. The fingering holes position and size are decided with respect to those of blowing holes. So even in the same scale for two different flutes, the size of the blowing hole and fingering hole may not be same. The size of the fingering holes are adjusted one by one to get the root note and respective notes of the key. Around 10-15% of the bamboos are turned to the best carnatic flutes here.
So each flute is personally handcrafted by Indiran ensuring it meets the rigorous demand of carnatic flautists in terms of perfect tuning, playability and craftsmanship.
When you are buying a carnatic flute by Indiran you are becoming a part of tradtion of great flautists.
Buy India’s Best Carnatic Flute Online
At Music Master, we specialise in sourcing the best flutes across India and get them listed on our website. We work closely with select manufacturers and make sure we sell only the highest quality concert graded carnatic bamboo flutes.
While there are variety of cheap flutes available with both offline and online dealers, what sets us apart is the kind of quality checks we do before sending the flutes to customers. The biggest challenge in buying the carnatic flute is its tuning. While there is no doubt that Indiran’s flutes reach us perfectly tuned, we ensure that the flutes are again checked in our music store with our inhouse flute teachers and tagged as quality checked. This ensures that the flutes that we sell to customers are perfectly tuned at concert grade of 440 Hz.
About Carnatic Flutes, Flute of South India
Carnatic Flutes is also referred as Karnatic flute or Venu or Pulankuzhal is the flute that is used in South India (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telengana, Andra Pradesh & Kerala). The flute was made popular among the carnatic circle by TR Mahalingam better known as TR Mali.
Anatomy of a Carnatic Flute
The carnatic flute has one blowing hole and eight blowing holes. The node is natural and the wood is made from special bamboo flute from parts of Kerala and Karnataka.
The Shadjam (tonic Sa) or the scale is the note played when the first two finger holes are covered. Three fingers (index, middle & ring fingers) cover the first 3 holes, while four fingers (index, middle, ring & pinky finger) are used to cover the next 4 holes. The last or the 8th hole is generally left open, sometimes used for tuning.
Classification of Carnatic Flutes
We can broady classify Carnatic flutes into 3 segments based on size (length of the flute) and octave that is being played.
- Medium Sized Flutes: 12 flutes, one for each scale : C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A# & B. These flutes are used to play the mid octave
- Bass Flutes: The flutes are larger in size to get that deep bass sound. G, G#, A & A# scales are recommended. These flutes are used to play lower octave.
- Small Sized Flutes : Beyond a key the flutes become too small to handle. G, G# & A scales are recommended. These flutes are used to play higher octave.
FAQs
What is an Indian flute called?
Flutes used in South India are called Carnatic flute or karnatik flute or venu or pulankuzhal. Flutes used in North India are called as Bansuri.
What type of flute is used in India?
India flutes are bamboo flutes. It can be broady classified in two parts. Carnatic flutes (Pulankuzhal or Venu) & Hindustani flutes (Bansuri)
How much does a flute cost?
We can get cheap flutes at an average price of Rs.200. However good quality flutes cost between Rs.1500 to Rs.7500 depending upong the quality of wood and process of manufacturing.
Which flute is best for beginners?
The best flute for beginner is D# and E for adults. For kids in the age group of 7 to 8 year the recommended flute is G or G#, for kids in the age group of 8 to 10 years, the recommended scale is F and F# & for those in the age groupd between 10 to 15 years is F and E.
How many holes are there in Indian flute?
Bansuri or Hindustani flute has 1 blowing hole and 7 fingering holes. Carnatic flute has 1 blowing hole and 8 fingering holes.
Which flute has 8 holes?
The carnatic flutes has 8 fingering holes.
Shipping Policy - Carnatic & Hindustani Flutes
The Flutes are shipped typically within 24 hours (Except Sundays) from time of order is placed. All orders placed on Sundays are shipped on Mondays. India Post is our preferred shipping partner for all international locations.
Delivery within India
All orders in India for metro locations will reach you in 1-4 business working days, while non metro locations is around 4-7 business working days. All deliveries within India are shipped freely. We will share the tracking number on the same day we despatch the flutes.
Delivery to International Locations
Delivery times are between 7-28 days from date of delivery. Each country has its own policy for wood items. Please note that we will try our level best to get custom cleared, but we may also need your help on same. Very rarely there may some fees levied. The customer has to bear those expenses. All international locations the courier charges have to been borne by the respective customer. We will send the bill copy for same.
Delay in Delivery.
Delivery times may vary based on the shipping address, public holidays, weather and other factors beyond our control. Shipment to international locations can get affected due to public holidays in international locations and India and sometimes unforeseen circumstances like a strike or an Act of God.
Return Policy - Carnatic & Hindustani Flutes
Each flute is custom made, and therefore may not look exactly as it is in our catalogue or the videos you may see. However we guarantee that the quality of the material is the same, tuning is perfect, making process is same and each flute goes through tight quality check before it is shipped. If you find any of the discrepancy when you open the package you can inform us within 3 days by sending us a picture and video and if we observe the same, we will refund or offer a new replacement no questions asked. We just want you to be happy.
