What nationality is Zamfir?
RomanianGheorghe Zamfir / Nationality
What kind of name is Zamfir?
The surname Zamfir (Russian: Замфир) is more frequently found in Romania than any other country or territory. It may appear as a variant: Zámfir. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
What type of pan flute does Zamfir use?
Zamfir 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.
What is nai music?
The nai (archaic: muscal) is a Romanian diatonic pan flute used since the 17th century and used in lăutari bands.
How many albums did Zamfir sell?
Now 64 years old, Zamfir has sold, by his own count, 120 million albums over his career. He single-handedly resurrected a forgotten musical implement, and is famous the world over.
Has Zamfir sold more albums than the Beatles?
He is arguably known as “The Master of the Pan Flute”. It is said he has sold more records worldwide than the Beatles and Elvis Presley.
Who invented the pan flute?
Although in some accounts the invention of the instrument was attributed to Cybele or Hermes, the deity most closely associated with the panpipes and widely credited with its invention was the pastoral god Pan.
What is Arabic flute called?
The ney (Persian: نِی,Ney/نای,Nāy), is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Middle Eastern music. In some of these musical traditions, it is the only wind instrument used. The ney has been played continually for 4,500–5,000 years, making it one of the oldest musical instruments still in use.
How do you play Turkish ney?
The Turkish ney is played by pressing the bashpare against nearly-closed lips and angling the flute so that a narrow air-stream can be blown from the center of the lips against the interior edge to the left or right, depending on whether the flute is left- or right-handed in construction.