Pan flute facts for kids
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
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This pan flute from the Solomon Islands is made from bamboo bound with reeds and rope
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A Peruvian-American Airman playing an Incan zampoña
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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
In Spanish: Flauta de Pan para niños
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