Does anyone here have an interest in South American music, and know of any resources or CDs for good panpipe/zampona music? Perhaps there is a Chiff and Fipple of South America? 
My new toy from Ten Thousand Villages:
I love the sound of South American panpipe music. I find the double row ones to be difficult to play. My mother got me a beautiful set of single row-pipes from the Philippines. Here’s the Yahoo! page on Andean music: http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Genres/Latin/Andean/
I wrote a tutorial based on single-row pipes at http://free.gentle.org/users/gospelhymns/panpipe.html
I just got a set of panpipes that look a lot like yours from http://www.andeannation.com/
I have also been learning to play the quena and quenacho. I got my quena from a group in San Antonio, Texas called Andean Fusion that also sells CD’s on their website: http://www.andeanfusion.com/
I enjoyed hearing them in person and bought one of there CD’s. They play traditional Andean as well as contemporary music. They use a lot of different types of panpipes.
-Joe
We’ve heard these guys before and have one of their CD’s. They are a lot of fun … lots of panpipes, quenas, and guitar. You should stop by and borrow the CD to listen to on your trip to Salt Lake
Might help if I included the URL:
Hey Paul -
I don’t have a CD player in my car but I’d love to borrow it once I get back. =) Maybe by then I’ll be able to play something - I run out of air a LOT faster on this than on whistle!
Bahhh Don’t play around with the maltas you need to get a set of toyos to be a real zamponista.
Looks like a nice set. If you need to bring them into tune if they are flat (usually are) then you can use short grain rice dropped into the tube (clean it out if you aren’t going to play them regulary since the rice can get…funky
We use rice for short term fixes. Long term you can use beeswax tamped inscooped out or sticky tack.
Mark V.
P.S. Toyos are about five feet long. We always say if you aren’t dizzy you aren’t playing 'em right!
Mine seem to be in tune, except for one note that is in between a G and Gb and I don’t know which it should be. It looks like the pipes are in the key of G with the lowest note a D and the highest a C - I’ve got it written down at home.
It’s pretty compatible with a D whistle, which I thought was funny =)
Are there any known sources of streaming audio for this type of music? Kind of like LiveIreland.com?
avanutria,
It should be a G. Most panpipes are purposely made flat. The pitch can change dramatically with different climate conditions and you can always make a pipe shorter (raising the pitch) by adding material to the bottom of the tube but really hard to lengthen them (other than by removing stuff you already added to the tube of course.)
Mark V
Do they have anything branded or stamped onto the side of the longest tube? I might be able to tell you a bit about the maker
[ This Message was edited by: markv on 2002-07-15 11:30 ]
It looked like there were initials or something written on the bottom of the longest tube, but it wasn’t very clear. I’ll see if I can take a pic for you when I get home.
Maybe one of you guys will know this -
http://www.rit.edu/~eeg6662/sound/Sample.mp3
Last year I bought some used minidiscs on ebay, and an unlabelled one had about 11 tracks of south american music like this. I have no idea who the artist is. Any ideas?
I can make longer samples if need be. I made this sample to send to the seller but she never told me who was on the disc.
Pan Pipes are cool. I wonder if anyone has made pan pipes with finger holes…
hmmm…
On 2002-07-15 15:41, The Whistling Elf wrote:
Pan Pipes are cool. I wonder if anyone has made pan pipes with finger holes…hmmm…
That would pretty much be a bunch of quenas tied together. The tubes are closed on the end and any cracks, or holes, renders the pipe unusable without slathering with superglue or tape.
Now a quena with keys…?
Mark
Interesting… I can see I’m going to have to experiment…
On 2002-07-15 15:20, avanutria wrote:
Maybe one of you guys will know this -http://www.rit.edu/~eeg6662/sound/Sample.mp3
Last year I bought some used minidiscs on ebay, and an unlabelled one had about 11 tracks of south american music like this. I have no idea who the artist is. Any ideas?
I can make longer samples if need be. I made this sample to send to the seller but she never told me who was on the disc.
If I had to guess, I would say Rumillajta. They go a bit overboard with the big production sound like that once and a while. They have come up with some amazing tunes though and are a great bunch of guys. I’d love to get a copy of that disk. Would it be possible to burn a CD? I’d probably recognize a tune or two on it.
Mark
I’ll trade you for a copy of your “Nine Mile Prarie” recording
I just had strange ideas for a keyed or other multi-pitched single tube panpipe. It could be shorted using butterfly valves connected to keys to get different pitches. It could have a sliding piston or be made of a flexible material so it could be pinched, to change the pitch.
Rod, that’s very interesting. I never thought of that…
I can see it now; “North Idaho, home of the slide panpipe.”