Very beautiful pan flute music - Petruta Küpper - Einsamer Hirte

The pan flutes (also known as panpipes or syrinx) are a group of musical instruments based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth). Multiple varieties of panflutes have long been popular as folk instruments. The pipes are typically made from bamboo, giant cane, or local reeds. Other materials include wood, plastic, metal and ivory.

Types

• Paixiao
• Wot
• Nai (Romania, Moldova). Note that nai is also the Romanian word for the Middle Eastern reed flute ney
• Siku (instrument)
• Kuvytsi, Svyryli, Rebro, Nai (Ukraine)
• A small panflute called chiflo or xipro was used by Galician mobile knife sharpeners in Spain,[5] Argentina[6] and Mexico, who
• blew quick, loud scales to announce their arrival in the neighborhood. They were traditionally bored from a block of wood, but more recently have been cast in plastic.
• The firlinfeu is a popular folk instrument in Brianza, the province of Monza and the southern sides of provinces of Lecco and Como (Italy).
• Quills, an African American instrument known primarily through the recordings of Henry Thomas in the 1920s and Mississippi blues musician Sid Hemphill
• Soinari
• Larchemi