Hey everyone, My boyfriend's birthday is coming up, and I could use some help finding a gift for him. He is very outdoorsy, studying adventure education, but as far as gear goes he is pretty well set because he just completed an immersive semester, so he got everything he needed beforehand. He is also very into primitive type things. He is the president of the schools primitive skills club. I'm open to ideas outside of this, but my thought was finding some of tribal or native american instrument. Someone showed him their native american flute and he thought it was awesome! So I was thinking either like a flute or a djembe drum. My problem is that I have no idea where to find a reliable place to order something like this online, and I have no idea what is a reasonable price to pay. So if you have any additional ideas or suggestions for where to find what I'm looking for I'd be grateful!
2012-04-05T18:15:28Z
He just got new hiking boots because he had to cut his other ones during his immersive semester to get out of quicksand. As far as gear he already has over a hundred bucks in gift cards to EMS, so if he needed something along those lines he would get it. I'm also looking for something more than a bracelet or necklace or something along those lines.
CoachT2012-04-08T19:25:53Z
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Definitely check out li'ni' s link - Odel Borg's flutes are truly awesome instruments played by many professionals.
He also makes an A minor "Little Hawk" that is well priced and ideal for beginners. It's a 5-hole for only $79 http://www.highspirits.com/mcart/index.cgi?code=3&cat=37
Add: a "real" Native American Flute is free. You go out into the woods and wait for the wind to speak to you and tell you which reed/branch/etc to pick up, then you bore the core and cut some holes to specifications that are exactingly measured using your own (not a maker's) body parts, and then you play hoping to attract your true love. For a "real" one, it just doesn't work to buy (or even have given) one someone else made. If you're not getting it for the "real" purpose - then it really matters more whether the maker makes one tonally accurate and musically responsive in which case it matters very little what his ethnicity is and only if he's a good musical engineer.
But, most musicians have little use for the real sort because they aren't tuned to a scale we can use when playing with others and playing well with others, as opposed to wooing a love, is what we musicians use these for. They're pretty good for meditations too. But, the instrument we generally call "Native American Flute" is actually as Native American as a French Horn is French. That is, it's not. It's a modern derivation. Mr. Borg's examples of that modern derivation are absolutely outstanding performing musical instruments.
It would be particularly odd for a girlfriend to encourage her guy to get a "real" one considering what its purpose is.
edit**** If you are on a tighter budget, email me. I am considering selling the A minor flute I'm playing in the photo ( I'm buying my 4th flute now and can afford to part with that one) and I can offer you a good price on that one.
Check out this place http://www.oneworldinstruments.com/ for a huge selection of tribal, native, ethnic musical instruments. Look at their sale page too - they always have lots of great coupon codes.
A real native American flute would be around $300-400. You can find them for less on amazon. Another thing you can get him is an African tribal mask. They are pretty cool. Maybe something like this one http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003XTWSQY/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwgiftidscom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003XTWSQY