Pan Flutes In Ancient Greece

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Pan Flutes are primitive wind instruments that consist of various vertical pipes that increase/decrease in an order. The way a panpipe is played is simply by blowing over specific tubes. The origin of panpipes or pan flutes is thought to be in ancient Greece. The name “Pan Flutes” comes from the assumed origin of Greece. From what we are knowledgeable of, these flutes are named after, and associated closely with the God Pan. Pan also went by other names like Faunus and the roman name Panas. Pan is the god of the wild, hunting and companion of the nymphs. The way he appears most of the time is in the form of a being with a human torso and head, but having goat horns, and having 2 goat legs from waist down. His lineage however is unclear. His father could have been Zeus, Dionysus, Hermes, or Apollo. His mother could have been a nymph named Dryope, Aphrodite or Penelope, before she …show more content…

According to Greek legend, goat-footed God, Pan, son of Hermes and a nymph, fell in love with another nymph by the name of Syrinx. Syrinx, however, did not share the same feelings and went to a riverside, where she turned herself into reeds to hide herself. Then Pan, upset that he could not find Syrinx, took the reed, and cut them up to make a panpipe, not aware that it was Syrinx. The other version of the story, Pan falls in love with the Nymph Syrinx, daughter of Ladon, the river-god. Fleeing his desires, Syrinx went to Zeus so that he could save her, but Pan captured her. Zeus then turned the nymph into reeds to keep Pan away from her. Enraged, Pan smashed the reeds into pieces. Then he thought about what he had just done and was struck with remorse and cried and kissed the broken reeds all that remained of his beloved. When he kissed the reeds, he discovered that his breath created sounds from them, and so he made the musical instrument that would carry the lost Nymph’s

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