Panflute Fridays

Watched Picnic at Hanging Rock and Rene reminded me about Gheorghe Zamfir, "The Master of the Pan Flute."



That's some sweet pan flute and serious 70's marketing skills! Zamfir, born in Romania on April 1, 1941, is known for playing an expanded version of the traditional Romanian-style pan flute (nai) of 20 pipes to 22, 25, 28 and 30 pipes to increase its range, and obtaining as many as eight overtones (additionally to the fundamental tone) from each pipe by changing the embouchure.







FILMOGRAPHY:
2010 Doina (short)
2006 The Goodbye Kiss (writer: "Suite de banat" / performer: "Suite de banat")
2005 Kill Dill (short) (performer: "The Lonely Shepherd")
2003 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (performer: "The Lonely Shepherd")
1998 Home Fries (performer: "You Light Up My Life", "Unchained Melody")
1997 Preku ezeroto
1994 Don't Drink the Water (TV movie) (performer: "Hora ca la Caval Shepherd's Dance")
1991 Only Yesterday (musician: "Funzulita Lemn Adus and Cintec de Nunta")
1990 Derrick (TV series) Solo für vier (1990) (performer: "If you go away")
1989 Margarit i Margarita
1986 Le caviar rouge (musician: pan flute)
1985 Paradise (short)
1984 Auf los geht's los (TV Series)
1984 Once Upon a Time in America (musician: pan flute)
1984 The Karate Kid (musician: pan flute)
1981 Intoarcerea la dragostea dintîi
1980 The Val Doonican Music Show (TV Series)
1980 Blood Wedding
1980 Der Spiegel des großen Magus
1975 La guerre du pétrole n'aura pas lieu
1975 Picnic at Hanging Rock (writer: "Doina: Sus Pe Culmea Dealului", "Doina Lui Petru Unc" / performer: "Doina: Sus Pe Culmea Dealului", "Doina Lui Petru Unc")
1974 The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (pan flute)
1972 The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (pan flute)
1971 Eeeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe
1971 Nana Mouskouri (TV Series)