WORDS

Sound is the entrance to the dimension of song

The Maker shapes a globe of clay,
Which is black and silent
until it is pierced with a window of light
and with breath, song.
OCARINA

Oh you seized the pierced stone in your hand
Breathing out such music of no interval or known key
That the cells of my body recomposed into a strange land
Where you were indeed a witch.
Long black hair,predator's eyes,nose of a hawk-
A black familiar purring in your hat.
Lady,I was afraid.

By Philip Mosbaum

Possibly, the oldest ocarina
is a tortoise-shaped relic.
An archaeological discovery from
Ancient Mayan civilization.
In type, the 'Syrinx' of
Pan in Greek mythology is
Also an aerophone.

Goat-Pan the foster-brother and comrade of Zeus,fell in love with a nymph, the chaste spirit Syrinx, whom he pursued to the river Ladon where she became a reed; there,since he couldn't tell her from any other reed he cut several down at random and made them into a Pan-pipe.

His design was copied by Hermes who claimed it as his own invention and sold it to Apollo- [ Beware of plagiarists! - this was before patent law! ]

from 'SYRINX' composed by Claude Debussy

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