The panpipe is so old because it is so simple. Before it where only percussion instruments.After man learned to make sound by hitting things, he discovered sound production by blowing into a bamboo, reed or animal bones. This was the birth of a one pipe panflute. Later, man found that different pipes make different sounds and he learned that it was caused by the different lenght of pipes. He joined one pipe to another and made the first multi - tone instrument. Then he joined two pipes, and three, and four... The pan flute originated in different places which haven´t been connected at all. In most places, at the same cultural stage. In his poem "Tristia" Ovidius describes the pan pipe he has seen in the hands of the shepherds of and old Roman colony Tomis. In France an diatonically tuned instrument with 7 pipes were found. In "The text-book of King Neagoe Basarab for his son Teodosie" (from the early 16th century), you can read about the Romanian pan flute. In the 19th and 20th centuries the Romanian pan flute is seen more and more in Europe. In 1843 in Bucharest alone, as much as 13 professional pan flute players were registered ! This period between the two world wars was a heyday for pan flute. The number of players was less than in the 19th century, but the quality of their playing was the best. Around the second world war there were only 16 registered pan flute players in the whole of Romania. The pan flute revival came after the war, caused by famous pan flute palyer Fanica Luca. He did many concerts in France, England, Egypt, China, Russia and the United States. In 1949 he started a pan flute class, which in 1953 moved to the Music Lyceum. This training remained in his hands until his death in 1968. Fanica Luca was not a man who had received a superior education himself. His work was more on experimental than on pedagogycal, but the results were grand and after the seventies a new generation of fantastic pan flute players, like Gheorghe Zamfir,Simion Stanciu, Nicolae Pirvu appeared in the West.