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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

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Buy Carnatic Flute Online With Confidence

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, venu flute 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.

8 Hole Flute - The flute of South India

In this video carnatic flute guru Mr. Sai Prabhakar reviews 8 hole flute (Scale : D#) made by Mr. Indiran. The classical carnatic flute also referred to as Venu in South India is a 8 hole flute and one blowing hole.

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….

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1.Whatsapp ‘Flute’ 

Whatsapp ‘Flute’ to 9789897600. We will send you a professional photograph and Video of the flute that you will receive.

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2. Place Order

Select all the scales you want and pay us. We accept all International currency.

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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.

Explore Handcrafted Professional Flutes

The perfect 8 hole flute crafted one a time ideal for daily practise, studio recordings and live shows. All flutes in our catalogue are tuned to 440 HZ.

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INDIA’s BEST CARMATIC FLUTE

Looking for a professional carnatic flute that is tuned perfectly and a sweet tone, look no further. The super premium carnatic flutes are made from 15+ year old bamboos that are found in deep jungles of specific forests of Kerala and Karnataka.

These flutes are handcrafted one at a time. Some of the carnatic flute player looking for smaller finger holes can make a request and we can make specially for them.

Play them once, you will get blown by the feel you will get when you hold them in hand and the sweet tone that will match the greatest carnatic players

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.

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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.

Perfect Tuning

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.

Venu Flute, The beautiful wind instrument

Carnatic Flutes is also referred as Karnatic flute, Venu or Pulankuzhal is the flute that is used in South India (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telengana, Andra Pradesh & Kerala). Venu flute is a monophonic instrument meaning it can sound like that of a human voice. A carnatic flute is capable of producing notes in two and half octaves with cross fingering and over blowing.

History of Venu

While the history of venu flute can be traced hundreds of years back, it was only about 125+ years back, Sri Sarabha Sastri designed the carnatic flute. However it was Palladam Sanjeeva Raomade it popular instrument among the carnatic circle. He promoted the flute also as main concert instrument along with Mirudangam, Violin, Veena etc. Prior to that flute was generally considered as a folk instrument. 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 finger holes. The end near the blowing hole has a natural node and this is an essential feature of Carnatic flute. The other end is open. The last finger hole is not widely used and occasionaly used for tuning.

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) in left hand cover the first 3 holes. In the left hand, 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.

Blowing hole (1)

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# and B scales are recommended. These flutes are used to play lower octave. Beyond G base scale the flutes length becomes too long and distance between finger holes become too large to play the flute
  • Small Sized Flutes : Beyond a key the flutes become too small to handle. So these flutes are not recommended for playing.

FAQs

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.

India flutes are bamboo flutes. It can be broady classified in two parts. Carnatic flutes (Pulankuzhal or Venu) & Hindustani flutes (Bansuri)

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.

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.

Bansuri or Hindustani flute has 1 blowing hole and 7 fingering holes. Carnatic flute has 1 blowing hole and 8 fingering 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.

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