is usually car from elder wood which first has to be stored for at least two years to dry. consists of a long playing pipe and a blow pipe with a small opening that's the basis. i use a small piece of wood to shape the opening the wood mustn't be split. but this tells you if the material is good. the flute once served as a signal horn and means of communication between shepherds on the mountain pastures in two thousand and five unesco included the instrument in its list of masterpieces of the oral heritage of humanity. from the cellar up into the living room we still haven't got the finished article.