I have a cedar flute made by a Native American (I do not know what group) who for a while ran a shop in the mountain town of Idyllwild, California.

It has what Ithink is being referred to as diatonic intervals, but the designer added an extra hole which when covered allowed the player to fill in the Western chromatic scale. I hope I am using these terms correctly (!).

It is tuned by sliding a hand-carved totem over the air slot above the holes and securing the totem (a wolf-like figure) in place with a leather thong. It makes the most other-worldly, beautiful sounds.

Although I haven't mastered it fully, I did use it for a house exorcism on ournew home a few years ago -- we had a party of people armed with noisemakers and instruments wandering from room to room, blessing all the spaces in the house with invocations from a wacky medicine woman friend of ours. Hey, this is Southern California, man! :>)) It was a lark, but the cedar flute really made its presence felt.

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