The Nagahara Wearless Mechanism (U.S. Patent #6,812,391) was created to further improving the stability and dependability of our already highly acclaimed mechanism and key work. The idea is simple but profound. Specially formulated plastic inserts are used at common points of friction to reduce ...

To show our appreciation to all Nagahara flutists, below we have listed a few of the many Artists who choose to perform on Nagahara flutes and headjoints. The recordings listed were made using their Nagahara instruments and are available for sale in the linked sites. Many thanks to all the Nagah...

We are now making headjoints from the following woods: African Blackwood Lignum Vitae Ceylon Satinwood Cocobolo Pink Ivory Khamphi Rosewood Kingwood Chakte Viga Cochin Rosewood Mopane Osage Orange Soloman Blackwood Tamboti Olivewood Mun Ebony After several years of success with our Nagahara wood...

For the past few years, Kanichi Nagahara wanted to bringsomething uniquein the area of metalsto the flute world. Initially, heconsidered 16K gold, but after Sir James Galway received his secondNagahara flute (made of 18K gold), Kanichi began thinking of making flutes and headjointsof even purer ...

In 1847, Theobald Boehm revolutionized the flute world with his cylindrical-bore instrument, from which all subsequent modern flutes are derived. The changes from the old-style conical-bore flute required a new configuration of tonehole sizes and locations, the result of which was the Boehm Scal...