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The siku is an Andean pan flute This pan flute from the Solomon Islands is made from bamboo bound with reeds and rope. A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth). [1]
In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, 'panpipes' or 'sets of end-blown flutes' are designated as 421.112. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pan flutes . Pages in category "Panpipes"
The siku is originally from the Aymaras of Peru and Bolivia, where a woman would play her siku as she came down from the mountains.Since the largest siku has every note (A-G), and was too big for the woman, they often got two sikus (usually smaller ones) that would be played together with someone else, so they could play them continuously after each other and thus the scales could fully be played.
Zampogna (UK: / z æ m ˈ p ɒ n j ə /, [1] US: / z æ m ˈ p oʊ n j ə, (t) s ɑː m ˈ-/, [2] Italian: [dzamˈpoɲɲa]) is a generic term for a number of Italian double chantered bagpipes that can be found throughout areas in Abruzzo, Latium, Molise, Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, Apulia, Sicily, and as far north as the southern part of the Marche.
Paixiao (pan pipes with distinctive notched or curved blowholes to allow for greater expression) Xun (clay globular flute) (Uyghur and Mongolian minorities also play a version of the Turkish ney.) Fipple flutes: Jiexiao "Sister xiao" (one of many forms of recorder-style flutes) Dongdi (special recorder-style flute with additional internal reed)
The money he saves from the drug paraphernalia handouts – either from not having to buy new pipes, or from selling the ones the organization gives him – goes directly towards buying more drugs ...
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Gheorghe Zamfir holding a nai. The nai has usually at least 20 pipes made of bamboo or reed.They are arranged in a curved array, allowing a greater speed of play.