Pan flute mvim_dc_ae_060 - Museu Virtual de Instrumentos Musicais

Pan fluteAuthor not identified | MIDC

Audio & Video Records

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Audio

Instrument: Pan flute
Source: Demonstrative audio sample from Ethnologisches Museum, available at MIMO’s website (2014).

Video

Instruments: Pan flute and orchestra
Work: Suite n. 2 in B minor BWV 1067. Minuet and Baldinerie.
Composer: J.S. Bach
Interpreter: Matthias Schlubeck
Source: Video originally published on the YouTube channel Matthias Schlubeck with the title “Panflöte Matthias Schlubeck – Menuet, Badinerie, BWV 1067 – J.S. Bach – Panflute”.

Further Information

Description

Instrument made of cane, with three tubes with different lengths. These tubes are united by two fine strings made of vegetal fiber, organized in an asymmetric manner. The larger tube is placed in the middle, between a medium sized tube on the left and a small sized tube on the right. The lower ends are closed. In order to play, the musician blows on the superior opened ends. Each tube generates a single note. When the blow is stronger, an additional superior harmonic is generated. To play semitones, the musician slightly turns the flute outwards.

Learn more

In Europe, the oldest Pan flutes were found in Italy and go back to the 5th and 6th Centuries BC. They were common amongst the Greeks and the Etruscan, who regarded them as a pastoral instrument of low value. Nowadays, the Pan flutes are important instruments in the folk music of Romania, Myanmar, Oceania (especially the Solomon Islands) and of the Andean countries of South America. In the South American countries, the Pan flutes’ tubes length may reach one meter or more and can be organized in two or three rows, being each played by a pair of musicians.

General Data

Classification

421.112.2 Stopped panpipes

Additional Names

Hattong (Source: MIGUEZ,1890-1895)

Item Data

Code

mvim_dc_ae_060

Date

Not determined.

Place of Manufacture

Indonesia

Manufacturer / Author

Author not identified

Material

cane, vegetal fiber

Dimensions

L=25,2cm W=5cm

Marks and Inscriptions

Later inscription: label with number and name of the 1905 catalogue "N. 41 - HATTONG".

Origin

Donated by João Baptista da Motta and Rodolfo Bernardelli.

Location

MIDC/EM/UFRJ Aerophones 421.112.12 I2 Shelf 20

Bibliography

ALMEIDA, 1994.
BASE MINERVA, 2014.
BETHENCOURT; BORDAS; CANO; CARVAJAL; SOUZA; DIAS; LUENGO; PALACIUS; PIQUER, ROCHA, RODRIGUEZ; RUBIALES; RUIZ, 2012.
BRAGA, 1973.
BRANDÂO, 2013.
CARVALHO, 1905.
MIGUEZ, 1890-1895.
MIMO, 2014.
MUSEU DA MÚSICA PT, 2014.
ROLLA, 1974.
SADIE, 1994.
SOARES, 1990.