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Andean panflute, or zampoña.

The pan flute or pan pipe (also known as panflute or panpipes) is an old musical instrument that has five or more pipes of gradually increasing length (and, at times, girth). The pan flute has been a folk instrument, and is considered the first mouth organ, ancestor of both the pipe organ and the harmonica.

Types of pan flutes

  • Nai (Romania). Note that nai is also the Romanian word for the Middle Eastern reed flute ney.
  • Antara (Andes)
  • Paixiao (China)
  • So (Korea)
  • Syrinx
  • Zampoña (Andes)
  • Kuvytsi, Svyryli, Rebro (Ukraine)

Images for kids

  • Flute de pan MHNT ETH AC NH 31 Savès

    This pan flute from the Solomon Islands is made from bamboo bound with reeds and rope

  • Archive-ugent-be-E898690E-0C16-11E3-8D98-58C697481370 DS-24 (2)

    The god Pan playing on his Pan flute. Excerpt from the Flemish magazine "Regenboog". Draft for the woodcut "Pan" of Jozef Cantré. Published in 1918.

  • Panflute1

    Two Romanian pan flutes

  • Zampoña

    A Peruvian-American Airman playing an Incan zampoña

  • Dom Flemons of the Carolina Chocolate Drops

    American musician Dom Flemons of the Carolina Chocolate Drops plays the quills, a traditional African-American pan flute, suspending it in front of his mouth with a harmonica rack

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Flauta de Pan para niños

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