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WELCOME

We are Ieke & Hans Houkes

For many years we have been building a wide variety of harmonic ceramic flutes, always eager for new sounds and forgotten knowledge from the past…

We use only natural clay, water, and fire to build our instruments. And air, of course, to play them…

For more information, you can always speak to us live by Skype, Zoom, Hangout, Whatsapp, or whatever. We are happy to demonstrate our instruments online and answer your questions or wishes about them. Just give us a mail or a call and we’ll arrange it!

BUILDING FLUTES

We love the sound of clay

That’s why we accept the unique difficulties this material brings with it during the manufacturing of our instruments. Clay shrinks during drying and firing and there is a never-ending challenge in getting our instruments to sound clear and perfectly in tune after firing. We only know if a flute is fine after the very last process… A few years ago we decided to share all the knowledge we gained by giving workshops and creating projects around the world. Sharing the art of clay flute making with people of every age for us is a perfect way to share the healing aspect of sound with the world…

DECORATION

Pure Clay

We have decided to use only pure clay to build our instruments. This is why we develop new ways to decorate our work only with Terra Sigillata. Terra Sigillata is made out of the finest clay particles which we distillate out of different river clays from different parts of the world. Every river clay produces different colors after firing. Through the years we were able to create a wide pallet of different colors, using only pure clay.

We use two different techniques on our instruments: a soap bubble technique with up to 6 different Terra Sigillata, a specially developed smoke fire technique to give our instruments a beautiful ancient look and a combination of both techniques.