These volumes are written for Native American Flute or recorder with drum and rattle. Note from the Author:

 All songs and dances of Music of the Cherokee Nation, Volume I and Volume II are playable on Native American Flutes. Six-hole diatonic scale flutes can play all pieces, while modal scale flutes can play some. Five-hole pentatonic scale flutes can play only a few. Some pieces have also been transposed to make them accessible to soprano and tenor flutes in D or alto flutes in G.

All pieces can also be played on recorders of any kind,  modern transverse flutes, as well as pennywhistles in D, C, G and low D. In some cases gemshorns and ocarinas can be used.

The use of a single or double sided drum and a good rattle (or maracas) will add greatly to make this music come alive.   George Kelischek

Finally,  we have "Eight Animal Dance Songs"

Based on music of the Alabama Tribe and arranged for three Native American Flutes,  SAT Recorders or in some cases, Gemshorns, by John S Kitts-Turner.

"The upper voices in these trios are the themes derived from Frances Densmore's field work with the Alabama Indian tribe in 1933. In the case of some ethnological research, there is a possibility of scribal error or individual performance variants and the appearance of frequent meter change and irregular meters may be questioned. The arranger has therefore, in some places, paraphrased the notated melody in order for it to be more easily playable and more rhythmically regular." John S. Kitts-Turner

The Nakai Tab is good to know, but be advised that some of the books on this page use standard notation and key signatures, not the Nakai Tab. Some of the Mary Youngblood books, also available on this site use the Nakai Tab as well as fingering charts for each note.

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