panpipes

According to Greek legend, the nymph Syrinx was turned into reeds to protect her chastity from the god Pan. When pan blew over the reeds in frustration, the pan flute was created. In Ancient Greece, the pan flute was considered a shepherd's instrument, and Pan was the god of shepherds.

The term 'panpipe' refers to a group of aerophones characterized by having several end-blown tubes of different pitch combined to form a single instrument (Figure 1). These tubes are blown across their upper ends and usually stopped at their lower ends, and tied together forming either a raft or a bundle (Sachs, 1940).

The pan flute is an end-blown flute. Sound is produced by the vibration of an air stream blowing across an open hole at the end of the tube. The air moves through the straw, vibrating along the way and out to the end.

Andean music Andean music is played at religious festivities , holiday celebrations and pilgrimages across the Andean region. Although brass bands have recently become popular at such celebrations, the most traditional musical sounds are created by groups playing panpipes, bamboo flutes (quenas) and skin drums (bombos).

It's a different type of pan flute. So with the south american ones they're played. Like that so that's how you play scales so up down up down up down um so that's how they're arranged.

Gheorghe Zamfir

The curved-style pan flute was popularized by the Romanian musician Gheorghe Zamfir, who toured extensively and recorded many albums of pan flute music in the 1970s, and by several other artists who began recording at the same time.

Usually, a pan flute has ten or more pipes that are arranged horizontally. Depending on the type of pan flute, the pipes can be attached to a cross-beam and tied with ropes (South-American style), or be glued to a base denominated "shoe" (Classic Romanian Style).

According to Greek mythology, the reed flute was first played by the satyr Pan. When Pan chased the beautiful nymph Syrinx (which means reed) and tried to embrace her, Syrinx, who did not like Pan, prayed to the river gods and was transformed into lovely reeds.

panpipe, also called syrinx, wind instrument consisting of cane pipes of different lengths tied in a row or in a bundle held together by wax or cord (metal, clay, wood, and plastic instruments are also made) and generally closed at the bottom. They are blown across the top, each providing a different note.

The panpipe was widespread in Neolithic and later cultures, especially in Melanesia and pre-Columbian South America. In the Greek legend of Pan the invention of the instrument is ascribed to the nymph Syrinx. In Europe it has been mainly a shepherd's instrument and has so endured in the Pyrenees.

Definition. The Pan Flute or panpipes (syrinx) was a musical wind instrument first used by the ancient Greeks. Most commonly played by shepherds, the earliest use was in the Cycladic islands in the third millennium BCE, and representations of the instrument run right through the history of Greek art.