Syrinx

Syrinx ( Σύριγξ ) In Greek mythology, the name of a well-known for her chastity nymph, daughter of the river god Ladon, companion of Artemis.

In the Metamorphoses of Ovid ( Book 1, Verse 689-713 ), the nymph Syrinx spurned the love Pans. On the run from him, it is transformed to their requests towards the river Ladon in reed. As the breath of frustrated God sweeps through the reeds, creating a poignant sound. Pan then cut his cane and produced with the help of the wax -called shepherd's flute Syrinx (panpipe ) and played to her his songs.

Derived from the scientific name of the voice of the birds head, that works much like an organ pipe (or even shepherd's flute ). He is in most species at the fork between the trachea and bronchi and contains oscillatory membranes, so that the birds sing.

Claude Debussy wrote in 1913 under the title Syrinx a piece for flute solo, which places high demands on the performer. The Greek myth is also the 1917-18 composed orchestral piece Pan og Syrinx (Pan and Syrinx ) op.49 (FS 87) of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen basis.