"If bamboo is considered to be the soul of the shakuhachi, the bore of the instrument is clearly its heart."

Monty H. Levenson

Crucial part of the flute making process is fabricating the bore profile. Flutemaker Lab is a precise software tool that takes the opportunity to explore and develop the bore shape of your instruments to a whole new level. It gives you an ability to plot, design and analyze your instruments. In your workflow you can create sketches and store any notes about different aspects of your making experience.

with Flutemaker Lab you can:

• create tables of bore measurements

• view bore measurements in different styles: single curve or cross-section view

• scale and compare different bore profile graphs

• plot and store size and position of the play holes

• create text notes during the workflow

• bind photos to the bore profile

• visualize critical points and perturbation weight functions

• calculate an approximate influence of perturbations at the different areas of the flute

• mark the significant parts of the bore with the colors you want

• exchange your data between Microsoft Excel and other software