What are Panpipes?

For many people who know little mythology, the name "Panpipes" reminds of the Greek god of the pelvis from which they are called. For those who watched TV at the 80's and 90s, the name Gheorghe Zamfir - the famous Romanian player of Romanian Panpipe - can come to mind because they will attack television ads for his recordings. And for Buffy Opera, Panpipe -playing Papageno of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Magic Flute can jump to mind. or "Syrinx", a tool with a tube of the same lengths tied together and stops inside them to change the pitch. Panpipes dates back to nine and ten thousand years. Early tools were made of cane, reeds, or bamboo pipes that were tied to leather rivers - they look like a raft - and playing through Thkec pipes, without mouthpiece. They were found in Greece, China, Burma, the Pacific Islands and Latin America, especially in the Andes, where one could also find a snail made of feathers.

Panpipes can have one tube or tube in the forties. Some pans have one layer of tube, while others have a double layer and can be referred to as a two-rank. Today, in addition to earlier materials, you can find panpipery made of glass and in addition to Romanian and South American models are available circular pans.

Panpipes are tuned to different scales, including pentatonic, diatonic and alternative tuning. The Andean Panpipes, also known as sika or zakpoñas , are made in different sizes and tuning. They come in one or two lines, and some two terraced pans are made to be separated and played by two players. At the additinum pans, they have a third line that allows playing chromatic standards.

Other well -known Panpipe players include Romanian artists Simion Stanciu, Fanica Luca, Damian Luca, Simion Rada and Nicolae Pirvu; French artist Panpipe isn-claude mara; and Jorge Rico. Panpipes were used to reinterpret a wide range of music, from Baroque concerts to ABBA, Beatles, Christmas Carols and Andrew Lloyd Webber.