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Is the Pan Flute shunned by Prog? |
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Syzygy 
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 Topic: Is the Pan Flute shunned by Prog?Posted: May 30 2025 at 14:54 |
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Mike Oldfield's brother Terry plays pan pipes on Ommadawn, if memory serves.
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I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
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DoobieBrother6
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Posted: May 30 2025 at 09:19 |
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Patrick Moraz & Syrinx - Co-existance 1980
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Posted: May 30 2025 at 05:21 |
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This is one of the more corny uses of Pan Flute that might've contributed to the instrument's bad rep
Trevor Rabin - The Cape Edited by Hrychu - May 30 2025 at 05:21 |
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Posted: June 23 2018 at 01:03 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oxvmNgBjTEHere's a preview of one of Los Jaivas tracks. It's a track Los Poderosa Muerte from their Alturas de Macchu Picchu album of 1981.
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Posted: June 23 2018 at 00:52 |
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Been curious about this for some time. There is no reason that more traditional world instruments can not be used. The Progressive genre of the 70's did make a mad dash for all kinds of instruments you would not consider in a rock band just for the unusual or exciting and exotic sounds they made. I quite like some more traditional Andean music and came across Los Jaivas some time ago. Here you will find everything from keyboards to traditional pipes of all sorts. They combine rock with traditional Andean and some of it can become fairly Progressive.
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Posted: June 22 2018 at 17:22 |
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Some South American bands, like Sikus, use the pan flute in their ethnic influenced rock music.
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Posted: June 22 2018 at 08:20 |
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First thing I thought of was that Latino band---So funny you already mentioned them but been loving that subway band for years in NYC--AGUA CLARA!!
Live version of Sierra Quemada on Hackett's Somewhere in South America--has what sounds like a pan flute--it's not the best live version of the song because of it lol
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Posted: June 22 2018 at 08:11 |
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not many people play the pan flute in the first place; even German comedian, jazz-musician and multi-instrumentalist Helge Schneider who plays a huge and diverse range of instruments (piano, organ, guitar, sax, trumpet, violin, cello, accordion, vibraphone, marimbaphone, ukulele, recorder, double bass and drums) doesn't play the pan flute. so it shouldn't come as a surprise that the pan flute is very little used in prog. speaking of Helge Schneider: in this clip he can be seen on saxophone, double bass and piano |
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Posted: June 22 2018 at 06:00 |
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I daresay there is some in the works of Los Jaivas
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Posted: June 22 2018 at 04:00 |
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You haven't lived until you've heard Tarkus played completely on pan flute
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Sampled pan flute was all over prog and rock of the 1980s.
Gabriel used a similar sampled flute sound on "Sledgehammer," but I don't hear much pan flute these days except on legitimate native music from the Andes mountains of South America, which is quite wonderful. The first sound in “Sledgehammer” is a synthesized shakuhachi (bamboo flute) played on the Fairlight CMI, which back in the eighties represented the cutting edge of digital synthesis and was a staggeringly expensive piece of gear. (Retro synth geeks will want to check out the video of Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones demonstrating a Fairlight, it’ll put a smile on your face.) Here, one of my favorite Cholo bands is "Agua Clara!" Edited by cstack3 - June 21 2018 at 22:54 |
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Posted: June 21 2018 at 17:08 |
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Baked flute is better than pan flute. Less saturated fat.
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Seriously, i think you have an open niche in the prog world to make it happen! Let er rip, man!
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Posted: June 21 2018 at 16:25 |
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What about Flairck?
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Posted: June 21 2018 at 15:06 |
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Jethro Tull likes to pan flute a lot. In one of the flute solos in A Passion Play, there's one flute panned left and one panned right.
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Posted: June 21 2018 at 14:43 |
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Knew this thread was coming...
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Posted: June 21 2018 at 12:47 |
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How about three pan flutes in harmony? https://youtu.be/cPSwzPuvBWw?t=1607
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Posted: June 21 2018 at 11:56 |
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Andy Latimer plays them on Stationary Traveller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfF2UZjXx_g |
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