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Welcome to MusicSmith Flutes
Native American Style Flutes | Music | Fun

from Dave & Julie Lusk

We have Native American style flutes! We are here for you with info on buying, playing, and caring for these special wood flutes.
Enjoy relaxing sound bath music. Flutes, harps, chimes, harmonium, singing bowls and drums are played to soothe and refresh you. Concerts are in-person and on Zoom.  Recordings too!

Native American Style Flutes by Dave Lusk (bio below)

  • Handmade flutes by Dave Lusk, master flute-builder.
  • Native American style Flutes for sale.
  • Flute Basics for Native American flutes  Get started with playing tips, flute care & troubleshooting.
  • Resource Library
    • Music for the Native American style flute.
      • May Peace Prevail by Julie Lusk
      • Peace Chant / Cherokee Lullaby / Ma ha da
      • Many more …
    • Songs, scales, embellishments & more.
    • Links, courses, flute lessons & more.
  • Overhauls and general servicing of professional flutes, piccolos, clarinets, and other instruments have been provided by Dave Lusk since 1967.

Refreshing Musical Sound Bath Tune-ups by Julie Lusk (bio below)

  • Enjoy listening to flutes, harps, harmonium, drums, Tibetan/Himalayan bowls, chimes, and the didgeridoo in a symphony of relaxing sound.  This can be coupled with yoga nidra and guided imagery for an extraordinary experience. In-person and virtual concerts are available for groups and individuals. Find out more.
  • Blue Moon Rising Album| Enjoy 16 beautiful tracks of Native American style flute music played by Julie Lusk accompanied by the relaxing sounds of Mother Nature as the backdrop. Digital and CD formats available | Flute music, guided relaxation and imagery, and yoga nidra.
  •   By appointment only ♥ Not a retail store ♥  Contact us anytime.

David Lusk Bio

Rose gold flute handmade by Dave Lusk

David Lusk is a master flute maker who specialized in making customized, handmade gold and silver symphonic flutes and head joints.  He serviced woodwinds and manufactured parts for new and antique flutes for over 40 years. He began designing and building handmade flutes and head joints during the early 80’s after apprenticing with the Landell Flute Company in Vermont.  He is retired from servicing classical flutes, piccolos, and clarinets.

Currently, Dave is happily hand-crafting Native American style flutes from wood.  Doing so unites his love of flute-building and woodworking with his love of music, knowledge of acoustics, and the intricacies of  instrument design.  He enjoys adding unique artwork to each flute he designs and makes.

Dave lives in the Cincinnati area. His customers live throughout the world.


Julie Lusk Bio

Julie started playing concert flute when the Lusks owned a music store. She delights in playing Native flutes for her yoga and meditation students and is happy to show others how to play.

Julie is Certified by the Academy of Sound Healing in the Foundations of Integral Sound Healing for Multi Instruments and completed their Integral Sound Healing with Tuning Forks 30-hour course.  More about Julie’s musical sound baths, lessons, and concerts.


Handy Links

  • MusicSmith Flutes Info 
  • Store| Native American style wood flutes for sale
  • Playing tips, flute care, troubleshooting
  • Flute Music | Scales | Embellishments | Lessons
  • Musical Sound Bath Tune Up
  • Music lesson details and registration
  • Contact us anytime.

Contact us anytime.

By appointment only ♥ Not a retail store.


Flute Music | Scales | Embellishments | Lessons

Playing your Native American Style Flute | There are no wrong notes! All notes harmonize melodically. Reading music is not needed.

Go HERE for handy playing tips, flute care & troubleshooting for Native American style flutes.   

Music Learn to play songs using a unique way of ‘reading music.’  Pictures of what notes to cover and uncover are used instead of reading traditional music.  This makes learning very easy to play. Here is the basic scale. 

Basic Fingering Chart

  • Fundamentals
    • Scales and Arpeggios.  Get started on the minor pentatonic and major scales. Enjoy advancing to arpeggios, the blues scale, mixolydian and mode 4 pentatonic scales. All on 1-page! Get a chart of musical terms and markings to read timing, embellishments, etc.
    • Templates Julie devised in 2020 to write out your own music. Simply use the staff paper lines to make 6 vertical circles for each finger hole. Next, pencil in the circles to show which holes to cover.  Lyrics go on the dotted lines in between.  The half page format has room below for notes and instructions. Use the full page format for longer songs. Happy creating!
    • Chakra Tone Chart See the yoga (Vedic) and Tibetan notes and tones used for balancing chakras by either increasing or decreasing their energy with sound. Yoga (Vedic) notes and tones are based on the diatonic scale. Tibetan tones and notes are based upon the perfect 5th.  Try both to see what is best for you.  Learn more about chakras here.
    • Easy Hand Warm-ups Here’s a great 5-minute series of hand movements & mudras to help your fingers, wrists & hands with easy-to-remember names for each one. Great for musicians & anyone with stiff, painful fingers, hands or wrists. Learn the Hakini Mudra, Beak, Bug, Claw, Paw, Seed, Web, Wings, Eagle & Hridaya. Thank you Christine Stevens at Upbeat Drum Circles for interviewing me.

  • Songs
    • Cherokee Morning Song (Wendeyaho) arranged by Clint Goss
    • Cherokee Lullaby (traditional) and a Peace Mantra variation by Julie Lusk
    • Creative Spirit by Julie Lusk
    • May Peace Prevail by Julie Lusk
    • Metta May We Be Well by Julie Lusk

  • Embellishments
    • Bird and animal sounds

Lessons | Learn to play music quickly and confidently with lessons.  Here are some of our favorite teachers. Most teach online and in-person. Look for them on YouTube and get their newsletter.  

  • Christine Stevens. Take her free course on 3 tips for playing Native Flute for Sound Healing, at Upbeat Drum Circles on YouTube  and on the Shift Network.
  • Clint Goss Music Facilitation and World Flutes.  He offers a free 800 page Flutopedia Manual that is amazing.
  • Julie Lusk offers online and in-person lessons to learn to play the flute as well as how to play the reverie harp, tongue drum, thumb piano, and other similar instruments.  Music lesson details and registration or  Contact Julie here.
  • Jonny Lipford Music
  • Miami Valley Flute Circle of Ohio
  • Stellar Flutes provide flutes, video lessons, and kits to make your own flute.

Handy Links

  • MusicSmith Flutes Info 
  • Store| Native American style wood flutes for sale
  • Playing tips, flute care, troubleshooting
  • Flute Music | Scales | Embellishments | Lessons
  • Musical Sound Bath Tune Up
  • Music lesson details and registration
  • Contact us anytime.


Contact us anytime about flutes & lessons

By appointment only ♥ Not a retail store.


Gain from Guided Imagery & Relaxation

February 7, 2011 by Julie Lusk

Guided imagery and relaxation are so much more than nice things to do if there’s time.  They are important life skills to know about and practice regularly.  Both are powerful mind-body-spirit techniques that elicits therapeutic relaxation; awakens and activates the natural ability for self-healing to occur; helps with changing behaviors and habits; and uncovers your inner truth and life direction while stimulating the intuition.  Everyone can do it.

Do you want to unlock your highest potential, experience many types of guided imagery first hand, and understand relevant scientific principles? Check out my schedule for upcoming workshops.

“Many common diseases and health complaints can be treated directly with mind-body techniques.” reports Dr. Herbert Benson, the Harvard Medical School scientist who coined the term “relaxation response” 35 years ago.  He states that “study after mind body study, carried out with the most careful scientific protocols, produced incontrovertible evidence that the mind can indeed influence  – and heal the body – even down to the genetic level.” Along with appropriate medical care, mind body techniques are used for health improvement and can eliminate problems associated with anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, insomnia, PMS, menopausal, peri-menopausal and breast cancer hot flashes, nausea, pain, premature aging and other disorders to the extent that stress is a factor.  Now consider that 80% of all illness is either caused by or made worse by stress.

In addition to the powerful and positive effects of relaxation and guided imagery on physical health, it is invaluable and reliable for tapping into one’s inner source of divine intuition and wisdom.  Plus, behavior change, musical performance, sport and athletic ability can all be strengthened with the regular use of relaxation and guided imagery. It can be used to reveal inner guidance with respect to one’s life direction.

Guided imagery, also referred to as creative visualization, is intentional daydreaming whose aim is to magnify the positive aspects of the mind-body connection. First, focused breathing and/or progressive muscular relaxation prepare the body for guided imagery and creative visualization.  Next, the mind is purposefully guided in a process similar to daydreaming.  The difference is that in daydreaming the mind is allowed to go wherever it pleases.  Instead of this, the mind is directed in a specific and special manner.  For example, a guided imagery exercise might ask you to focus on a setting or environment that feels safe and comfortable.  This can be experienced and accomplished by mentally seeing the setting, feeling or sensing the environment, or using the senses of sound or smell.  As Belleruth Naparstek says, “there are many right ways to experience guided imagery.”  Get more about relaxation, imagery and meditation here.

So, now what? If you want to feel your best, and even prevent or conquer long-term medical problems, it’s time to get back to your yoga, meditation, and visualization habits.  You wouldn’t skip brushing your teeth everyday, would you?

If you’re like the rest of us and could use some help, so either join a local class, get together regularly with like-minded people to support each other, and get your DVD’s and CD’s back out.   I am delighted to offer a selection of yoga and meditation classes in the Cincinnati area.  Plus, I have retreats and conferences coming up.  Check out my schedule.

If you prefer here’s some book and CD resources on mind body relaxation to benefit from.  Click HERE to buy my Real Relaxation: Yoga Nidra CD.

Filed Under: Events Schedule, Meditation / Guided Imagery, Mind-Body Mastery Tools and Techniques, Misc Musings, Stress Relief / Management Tagged With: guided imagery, Herbert Benson, Kripalu, meditation, mind body spirit techniques

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Earthing ♥ Grounding is Amazing

April 27, 2017 by Julie Lusk

Guess what?  Just like we need air to breathe and vitamin D from the sun, we really need to be in physical touch with our Earth to be healthy and happy.  The term is earthing or grounding.

So, kick you shoes off and go barefoot.  Not only does it feel great, doing so releases muscular tension and calms your nerves by regulating your nervous system.  It’s fantastic for your heart too.  That means it will lift your spirits and help your heartbeat and blood pressure.  We truly need our Earth more than you realize.  Here’s why…

We are bombarded by EMFs (electrical magnetic fields) and RFs (radio frequencies) from WIFI and our devices with no way to discharge this overload of energy.  This can cause harmful results.  To reverse this for better health, it’s important we spend time earthing, also called grounding.

“The Earth’s surface contains a limitless number of free electrons that are continually replenished through solar radiation and lightning strikes; your body naturally absorbs these particles when you make physical contact with the ground” reports Dr Sinatra, MD.

He says, “In the body, these electrons have an anti-inflammatory effect because they reduce the free-radical activity that causes inflammation and chronic pain. (If you remember your high school science, electrons are negatively charged. Inflammation-causing free radicals are positively charged, which means the additional free electrons neutralize the free radicals.) The energy of the free electrons gained through grounding also helps keep your body’s innate electrical circuitry properly balanced. All of these effects of grounding are extremely beneficial to heart health.”

This disconnection is a result of our modern lifestyle.  A big reason is that wearing rubber and plastic soled shoes blocks us from the Earth’s surface and is strongly associated with an increase of inflammation, oxidative stress, and nervous system malfunctions.  No wonder there’s been high increases in insomnia, heart disease, diabetes and other problems related to inflammation.

A simple solution is to stand outside on the ground barefoot … actually touching our skin to the ground. More options include standing on cement (not blacktop/asphalt).  Brick, stone, or using a specialized pad, or a sheet made especially for grounding work as well.

Dr Sinatra said not to keep smartphones in one’s front pants pocket because doing so for only 20 minutes lowers testosterone by 400% in males.  Avoid holding smartphones directly against your ear too.  Keep it an inch or so away or use speakerphone.  Lower your risk by not using it while it’s plugged in as well.  Write your text then set it on a desk before pressing send.  Small changes make big differences.

Isn’t it remarkable that our Earth protects us from harm and gives us better health.  Let’s not forget that’s really where we get our food and water too.  What a connection, eh?  So, kick your shoes off and find out for yourself!  It’s beautiful out there – there’s nothing to be afraid of.

More resources for you


The Direct Current (DC) circuit of energy flows through every part of the natural universe, including plants, animals, human beings, and the surface of our entire planet, creating a Global Electrical Circuit. This natural DC energy is what the human body uses to function.  Everything from the beating of our heart to the movement of our muscles to our brain’s ability to think require DC energy.

Studies suggest that becoming a part of the earth’s global DC circuit enhances our conductive health. This has far reaching implications to all our organ systems that function off of DC energy and conductivity. This includes, but is not limited to our central and peripheral nervous system, our musculoskeletal system, and our cardiovascular system.

Grounding instantly connects us to this natural energy circuit. It plugs us into this healing energy.  Learn more in this video.  

Reference: The Real Reason Grounding Works by Laura Koniver, MD


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15-minute explanation of grounding/earthing called Down to Earth from Big Picture Ranch on Vimeo.


A 7-minute video reviewing the benefits of Earthing/grounding according to medical studies by Dr. Laura Koniver, MD.  Learn how long is needed for results.


The Schumann Resonance is 7.83 hertz.  This is the frequency of the Earth’s electromagnetic field spectrum, outer space, alpha/theta brain waves (meditative, relaxed, and dreamy), the musical note of C, the Root Chakra /Earth element, and the Sri Yantra. Grounding can connect us to this powerful, healing energy.

Migraine headaches, emotional stress, and other problems can result if we’re ungrounded and shielded from this frequency.

Ancient and modern yogis have said that the Big Bang and deep space sounds like OM.  The NASA video below is the sound of a black hole. Amazingly, it is 57 octaves below middle C.  Does it sound like an OM to you?

 

 

Filed Under: Stress Relief / Management, Wellness Tagged With: earthing, grounding, lower inflammation

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