The Story of the Flute (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Story of the Flute

Thinking that they were concealing the nymph, Pan cut the reeds, and amorously sighing over them, they gave forth musical sounds, whereupon he fashioned them into pipes of various lengths and played upon them.

Ovid assigns the invention of the flute to Minerva, who, finding herself laughed at by Juno and Venus whenever She played it, Flung it aside, when she her face surveyed Distorted in a fountain as She played. Th' unlucky Marsyas found it and his fate Was one to make the bravest hesitate. Longfellow.

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