INNATO

SIZE, TUNINGS & SCALES

The Innato comes in different sizes and keys. Which instrument is best for you depends on the size of your hands and the desired key. Every key has its own special effect on people, so please listen to the sound samples to find the sound that fits you the best.

From Bbm and up all hands will fit, from Am down to Fm you will need medium to large hands.

The Album INNATO Volume 1 is specially recorded to offer a variety of inspirations for all Innato players. The album also be found on Apple Music, Spotify and Soundcloud.

Pricing

Our instruments find their way all over the world! To be able to serve everybody who likes to get hold of one of our instruments, Stonewhistle works together with a growing group of ambassadors: passionate people who have a good understanding of our instruments to get you the best match!

Because of the high demand on our instruments and depending of the location you live, it is possible your request will get forwarded to one of our ambassadors directly.

Here you can find the new online store to buy an Innato: www.stonewhistle.store

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USA Innato customers

All Stonewhistle Innato orders for the US must be fulfilled by one of my ambassadors there. Prices are higher due to shipping and import costs.

Alan Tower, California

He and I spent five years designing the tonality and testing many Innato iterations.  He has developed his own personalized way of guiding clients to the best choice of a key for their current and future uses. He also offers group lessons – Exploration Series. www.innato.us

Kerem Brulé, San Diego

Kerem Brulé is a sound meditation educator and live healing soundscape artist from San Diego supporting wellness workshops, transformational retreats and professional healing trainings with her kind spirit, grounding presence, and intuitive healing gifts with music and sound.  Kerem has carved herself a very unique path of meaningful work as a got to live musician for a wide spectrum of events for yoga, movement, breathwork, ceremony, meditation, art, and much more as she follows her inspiration in collaboration and experimentation. www.beautifulsounds.co

Joseph Schmidlin, New York

“Onetone Sonic Alchemy’s mission is to raise sonic awareness and sonic activism. We believe in the self-aligning principles of the universe and as we tune ourselves and our environment we become vessels for health and wellness. It is our mission to bring health and wellness to every interaction and relationship.” www.onetone.one

India Ambassadors

Svun Sounds – Rishiraj Kulkarni, Pune, Maharashtra

Svun Sounds was born in Pune (Maharashtra, India) with a passion of introducing and selling unique musical instruments in India from across the globe by collaborating directly with independent makers who handcraft their instruments.

www.svunsounds.com

HISTORY

The Innato is an innovation based on the Huaca invented in 1980 by Sharon Rowell.

Rafael Bejarano, a Mexican sound shaman, learned about the Huaca from Alan Tower, who in 1999 introduced him to the inventor Sharon Rowell, to learn the sculpting method she began developing in 1980.

In 2015 Rafael died tragically on a spiritual retreat in Egypt at the age of 41, a devastating event for the tribe of people who experienced and followed his sound work.

After hearing about  Rafael’s death I  contacted Alan Tower and soon a collaboration began to further Rafael’s legacy. Rafa often played his Huaca close, such that the sound landed softly between the closed eyes of listeners, for a connective 3D sonic journey. Just before his death he and Tower had completed a first prototype of what they called an Immersion Flute, to better deliver Rafa’s surround sound experience to people.

The Innato is an innovation based on this instrument, designed to cover people in sound waves wafting down from above the head. The big breakthrough came when I found out that direct contact with the cranium created the effect that Rafael was going for. It took us over three years to perfect the instrument’s design and tuning. Our new Innate harmony instrument was born…

While offering musicians an open architecture to explore, the Innate Flute also offers non-musicians to be able to play the instrument easily and beautifully with no training. It is a classic “Innate harmony instrument” like others developed by the resonancegroup.us, and best exemplified today by the Hang or Handpan.

The Innato is dedicated to Rafael Bejarano and his legacy of offering sound to humanity as both a healing and life expansion modality.

Rafael Bejarano

Hans Houkes and Alan Tower