On a recent shopping trip, there wher a group of pan pipe players standing in my town centre and it sounded really good! I know want to buy and learn how to play the pan pipes. i know that you blow over the top of the pan pipes to make a noise but does any one know where you can get music from as in the sheet music you can buy for guitars etc of famous songs pls help
2007-04-19 07:41:19 · 5 answers · asked by sandradapanda 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
I used to play one of those sometimes (I was a flute major, and then a world music performer).
What you can play will depend on the size and quality of the instrument. More pipes = more range. Aulos made some good ones out of PVC pipes with corks in their bottoms, so you could tune if needed.
Panpipes are a diatonic instrument--that is, no sharps or flats in a typical one. If you really need a sharp or flat, you can fake it on a good pipe by rotating it toward your lips. For the most part, you can play any common melody with a pan pipe; I wouldn't recommend trying really ambitious classical or jazz pieces with lots of chromatics and key changes, though.
A few years back there were several recordings released in the general market by Georg Zamfir, "master of the Rumanian pan flute." You might want to look him up; I believe he increased the size of his instrument to include chromatics, so he could actually play any melody in western musical styles.
Anyway, once you learn the notes on your instrument (which ought to be easy enough, either it will come with a chart or you can match pitches with a piano or electronic tuner), you can just follow any piece of sheet music--though you might have to transpose if the pan-flute is in G and the music is in Bb.
2007-04-19 07:58:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know anymore than you do but i have been told to use the piano as a note guide and the flute for sheet music -- i haven't tried it yet but the guy who gave me this insight played the pipes like jethro tull.
2007-04-19 07:53:02 · answer #2 · answered by mz tury 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to cochabamba in bolivia and enrol at the Mariscal Estigarribia School of Panpipe Arts, they do a NVQ for people that want to play in England, and the compulsory health and safety act module is thrown in free
2007-04-19 11:47:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sheet music would be for the piano, I play a harmonica and use piano music
2007-04-19 07:52:14 · answer #4 · answered by cheezeboe1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell if I know.
2007-04-19 07:50:45 · answer #5 · answered by Night Turn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋