Pan’s Flute

Pan (god)

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. With his homeland in rustic Arcadia, he is also recognized as the god of fields, groves, wooded glens, and often affiliated with sex; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring.

Pan flute

A pan flute is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length. Numerous varieties of pan flutes have been popular as folk instruments. The pipes are typically made from bamboo, giant cane, or local reeds. Other materials include wood, plastic, metal, and clay.

Flute

The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, flutes are edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute is called a flautist or flutist.

pan

Symbol

1. ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Punjabi.

Noun

1. A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
2. The contents of such a receptacle.

flute

Noun

1. A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
2. A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.

Verb

1. To play on a flute.
2. To make a flutelike sound.