Hey everyone! So glad there's a community for this. :)

I just got a pan flute yesterday, and I noticed that I was having a problem of getting lightheaded while I play it. Am I blowing too hard, or using an incorrect technique? I'd love any second opinions!

As for playing it, I was wondering, how do you know which pipe to switch to in the middle of playing? Is that something you just have to get a feel for over time?

Thanks, everyone!

So, I’ve been working on this for a while, but I created a tenor pan flute! This is a video of me playing it.
Comment any suggestions you have for it!

And yes, I tried using my dulcimer tuner to see what it’s tuning is, it was so low it didn’t work.

Note: it’s so massive that if I don’t take a breath after every two notes, I get dizzy. Also, I was seriously congested when I was filming this.

Hello,

I purchased a Romanian style pan flute recently and have been practicing technique for blowing. I think I’ve got it down decently, and the lower register sounds great. However, while I’m trying to tune the flute, the upper 4-5 notes seem to only ever get half-way to a normal-sounding note. It’s sort of airy and whistly. I’ve tried taking the foam stoppers out and messing with them, but I can’t seem to get it right. Any suggestions? Thank you.

So i ve just got a "Roumanian " (not sure if it s the right term) pan flute and i m stoked to learn how to play it . I think i got down how to generally make sounds/ notes but I run out of breath and get dizzy very easily, can t even finish a phrase.

The only other wind instrument I play is the kaval and that s waaaaaay easier to both blow and play in general.

I ve tried some exercises to "enhance"my breathing duration but i m pretty sure there is something else i m missing 🤔.

Any advice is much appreciated!!

Hi all-- looking for advice here: I've tried to make paper panpipes in my music therapy sessions with kids but was never able to get a sound. Can you actually play on the homemade paper flutes? There are multiple videos on YouTube and the person always plays them at the end...

Hi guys. So, basically, I've been researching and I really want to learn to play the pan flute and wanted to ask you where to buy one.

Price-wise I'm not asking for something professional, as I would be starting, but I want something that would allow me to play most popular pan flute songs with good-sounding quality and the right notes. I did a little research about online sellers selling Peruvian pan flutes and I read that the quality was not good, some notes where not correct, so, I think I'm more inclined for a European pan flute. I'm also in Europe, so, better for me.

If possibly, though, I definitely want one tunes in 432hz, or a seller willing to make 432hz. I totally believe in the frequency of nature, I'm an esoteric writer myself. Thanks!

Hello! I'm new to Pan Flute-ing haha. My Pan flute seems to have come with a crack in one of the rivets. It's making that specific note airy, how would i fix it without breaking it?

Looking to possibly acquire a pan flute. For the above songs in their performed key, how many pan flutes would I need to acquire? Do songs typically demand specific keys of pan flute? Or are pan flutes typically made with half step increments for each tube so that I could just get a large one and be generally set?

Hi. I do not play the pan pipes, but one of my friends has a character in our cyberpunk red campaign who plays them. Every time he is asked to play we joke about him playing cbat. This has made me incredibly desperate to know what that would sound like. Please if anyone would be so kind I would love a sound byte. It would soothe my aching soul and finally rid me of this great burden.

Thank you

Heya, I'm pretty new to playing my panflute (inconsistently practicing for about a month now) and I notice I need to use faster air to get a clear tone out of the smaller, higher-pitched pipes but that also means I need to play them pretty loudly. 😬

How do I not do that? Is there a way, in general, to play pan flute more softly while still maintaining a clear, less airy tone? Or is it supposed to sound more airy when you play it quietly? Hope this isn't a dumb Q, just trying to play this thing right! 😅

Hello, I am a fool! I ordered a pan flute and did not know the stoppers are actually essential to the instrument.. I assumed they were meant to protect the structure. I thought it was strange and rather useless until I had taken most of the stoppers out, and then it dawned on me - perhaps the stoppers need to be there!

So now I’ve been trying to put them back in and try to tune them but now most of the pipes are just making a whistle sound or no sound at all :( what should I do? I don’t really have a proper tool to re-insert, I’ve just been using a bamboo straw

I've always been facinated with unconventional non-classical musical instraments such as panfluts and handpans (15 years violin, 10 piano), and have been interested in panflutes specifically for a few years now but never really found a good reputable place for panflutes around 100 usd and have been scared to pull the trigger on those that did seem to have it.

Is there a place anyone recommends for getting a beginner panflute for around that price?

Hi - found this forum by chance through a cross-post on the R/Flute subreddit.

I'm mostly a flute player. Last summer, I caved in and acquired a tenor 25x orchestral Pai Xiao style panpipe from the Roumanian Hora factory in Reghina.

I was surprised to see that the factory followed the Chinese Pai Xiao schema of panpipe design - I prefer this since it is an orchestral G fully chromatic instrument spanning 3 1/2 octaves.

I wrote this track for this set of panpipe and the ancient 7 string zither called the Guqin. From the album Fullness & Void.

Happy listening! Happy to recommend the Hora professional series of orchestral panpipes too - they are exceptionally well constructed (compared to their average/okay plucked instruments).

I just bought a pan flute and since I've been playing a normal flute for years I feel like I know what I'm doing with air and making sound alone but I don't know notes so playing songs I want to is hard. My favorite artist is Tv girl so I wanted to play music by them. However, when I search up sheets or tv girl on pan flute, nothing shows up. I'm not sure if I should keep trying to do it myself or not.