I think you're right David.



All this new models of panflutes (tenor, bas, etc) are buildet around the
years 70

by Constantin Popescu. This was an architect and make in the beginning
panflutes like hobby.

All professional panflutists play at this time on Popescu panflutes.

You can see that on the covers of the albums or of the films from this
period.



Around 1980 Constantin Popescu emigrate to Germany with his family

and live in Dusseldorf till the end of his life (around 1995).

I visited him a few times and I speak with him about panflutes and
panflutists.

Popescu told me that he buildet all this different model panflutes because

professional panflutists ask him to doe that.

I believe him. He was a honest and upright man.



I think Zamfir plays now on Preda panflutes. He ask years ago Preda to make

for him this panflutes without the specific patterned base (with a neutral
rim).

I know from Preda that he has also restored from time to time his panflutes.

I believe also Ion Preda.



Costel





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Van: panflute-world@yahoogroups.com [mailto:panflute-world@yahoogroups.com]
Namens David Pighills
Verzonden: woensdag 1 februari 2006 19:39
Aan: panflute-world@yahoogroups.com
Onderwerp: RE: [panflute-world] Zamfir: A composer for all ages



Hi everyone.....

I'm just a bit confused here.
The new family of panflutes inspired by the maestro in 1968 appear in
footage and on albums as if made by Constantin Popescu (patterned base like
Preda).

Amongst these, around the early to mid 70s appears, a 23 tubed flute with
a plain base which I saw him play live in 1980 in London.

Later media shows all his flutes as a plain base (e.g. the Diane Bish
video) and I just wondered who made his panflutes after Popescu.

Certainly there seems to be evidence of Panflutes made by Mr Popoescu of
20, 25, 28 and 30 Tubes.

Best wishes.

David

"Nichols, Susan" <nicholss@...> wrote:
Marilyn I am referring to the older flutes he has been using most of his
career.
Cheers
Susan

-----Original Message-----
From: panflute-world@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:panflute-world@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Marilyn
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 3:57 PM
To: panflute-world@yahoogroups.com
Subject: FW: [panflute-world] Zamfir: A composer for all ages
Importance: High


Doug,
The first part of this e-mail is quite interesting. Zamfir hasn't
made a panflute in over 20 years (if ever).
Marilyn

-----Original Message-----
From: panflute-world@yahoogroups.com [mailto:panflute-world@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Nichols, Susan
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:03 AM
To: panflute-world@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [panflute-world] Zamfir: A composer for all ages
Importance: High

Hello everyone,
I had a serious conversation with regards to this as I mentioned we were
wondering who made them.
He stated that he crafted the panflutes a little more than 40 years ago by
hand. He also mentioned
there is one person in Romania right now who brought him one as a gift not
long ago and said it was
fabulous. I'll ask him the name again. I know he doesn't make them now nor
in the past 20 years
since I've known him. Hope this info is helpful.
Have a great day
Sue

-----Original Message-----
From: panflute-world@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:panflute-world@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of David Pighills
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:41 AM
To: panflute-world@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [panflute-world] Zamfir: A composer for all ages


This raises that question again.

Did Zamfir/does Zamfir actually make his own Panflutes.
as in - does he actually do the woodwork ?

David

Erik <erik@...> wrote:
http://www.commonground.ca/iss/0601174/cg174_zamfir.shtml

CG : Archive : Jan 2006
Zamfir: a composer for all ages
by Corrina Ligertwood

According to mythology, the 6,000-year-old pan pipe was created when wind
passed
through bamboo and gently caressed its opening. "I invented the modern pan
flute in
1968," Zamfir explains, "and created an entire family of pan flutes that
eventually helped
me introduce the instrument in all musical styles."
Zamfir, who handcrafts each pan flute and tunes them with beeswax, uses five
different
sizes of pan flute for his performances. From the traditional soprano pan
flute, he built the
alto, tenor and bass flutes, and in 1972, he created the contrabass. In
2003, he built what
he calls The Giant, a flute with 42 tubes.
A deeply spiritual man, Zamfir describes his music as "gigantic prayers
releasing a colossal
force, which helps us understand the divine forces." Zamfir also believes
the sounds of the
pan flute have "major cosmic values meant to set man free, and save nature
and the
Earth."
In 1982, Zamfir was exiled from Romania for violating the doctrine of
Ceausescu's
totalitarian regime by publically dedicating his songs to God. Having toured
the world,
Zamfir chose Montreal for his eight-year refuge.
"The exile was absolutely terrible for me," Zamfir says. "I suffered a lot
because of the
communist regime that destroyed all the human values. If I had not chosen to
flee the
country, I would have been found guilty, arrested, and maybe dead. Ceausescu
was jealous
because I was famous and he could never accept that he was not the only
famous one.
"When I returned from exile in 1990, I suffered just as much as during the
exile, because
for the previous 15 years I had been totally marginalized," Zamfir explains.
"The cruel
campaign meant to discredit and insult me damaged my reputation enormously.
When I
returned, the Iliescu and Constantinescu governments started a fierce attack
against me;
they were just the same people as the ones we had before, but with different
masks."
Zamfir returned to Romania with only one wish: to help his country change
and progress,
culturally, socially, and economically. He felt that he had gained an
enormous amount of
experience living in democratic countries such as France, Germany,
Switzerland and
Canada. However, he found that it was not to be. "The same communists were
ruling as
the play had been staged long before the fall of the Ceausescu regime," he
notes.
"They knew exactly who was going to grab the power and how they would rule
the
country. I became an easy prey in Ion Iliescu's hands, as well as of those
who are still
ruling the country because I have never changed the opinions and beliefs I
had during
Ceausescu's regime, so I was their target for a total destruction."
Despite his political persecution, Zamfir remained in Romania and created
the world's first
university department for pan flute study. Today, he continues to tour and
add to his
prolific catalogue of compositions and recordings.
Zamfir has composed chamber music and symphonic orchestras, sacred music for

orchestra and choir, and more than 300 opuses for the pan pipe and organ or
piano. While
most of his albums are devoted to rhapsodies, concerti, and sonatas of his
own
composition, as well as works by Bach and Mozart, popular Western music is
also part of
his repertoire.
The composer notes that his theme for Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in
America
helped his world reputation and career enormously. Zamfir also played on
much of Bill
Conti's score for The Karate Kid and scored several films, including Peter
Weir's Picnic at
Hanging Rock and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol.1, which has afforded him
musical
hipness and a new generation of pan flute fans who can whistle his famous
tune The
Lonely Shepherd.
Zamfir is pleased to be returning to Canada, which is now home to more than
130,000
Romanians. "In the `80s, I performed in Vancouver and my concerts enjoyed a
fabulous
success. In 1984, for example, I had seven concerts that were all sold out."
Zamfir performs January 27 at The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts
with the
Athenaeum String Quintet. Tickets $65.50 at www.ticketmaster.ca or call
604.280.4444.
For Zamfir's Canadian concert dates, visit www.keystonemusic.ca,
403-670-0460.

Pan flute virtuoso returns to Canada

Here's a new question for Trivial Pursuit fans: Name the world-famous
musician who was
exiled from Romania for dedicating his music to God, played Carnegie Hall
twice, has more
than 90 platinum and gold records, met Pope John Paul II three times, was
featured on a
recent Quentin Tarantino movie soundtrack, and will soon be touring across
Canada?
After nearly a decade-long absence, Romanian pan flute virtuoso Gheorghe
Zamfir returns
to Canada this month for a seven-city tour with the Athenaeum String
Quintet. The
program features Vivaldi's Four Seasons, jazz standards, and well-known
favourites.
Born in Gaiesti, Romania in 1941, Zamfir learned to play gypsy songs on the
accordion
while tending his family's herd of goats. His extraordinary talent was
discovered when he
was assigned to pan flute class in music school. He subsequently studied
piano and
conducting at the Conservatory of Bucharest, conducted one of Romania's
greatest
folklore ensembles, Ciocarlia (The Skylark), for many years, and began
touring in 1968.
"Along with Ravi Shankar, Zamfir was one of the first world music artists to
tour," says
Calgary concert promoter Bryan Taylor. "Zamfir single-handedly popularized
the national
instrument of Romania, Colombia, Peru, Greece and Japan. For a musician
based in
classical and world music genres, his commercial success was amazing. His
records were
released to North American markets in 1981 with great success. Zamfir now
has a 180-
disc catalogue."





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