For other uses of this term, see syringe.
The syringe is a wind instrument, similar to the flute, but with nine or eight holes. It is similar to Pan's zampoña or flute. The syringe is of Greek origin, and there are legends about it in Greek mythology.
Mythological OriginsThe god Pan fell in love with the nymph Siringa, when he was walking in the woods. One day, Pan pursued her until he surrounded her on the banks of the River Ladon. Siringa called for help to the naiads, and these turned her into a cane. Pan, realizing that the wind whistled as it passed through the reed, supposed that it was the lamentations of the nymph. He decided to cut the cane and joined the pieces with wax; he built his syringe to touch her when passion and desire possessed him. Preserved from the cavern of Artemis after dead Pan, one could check the virginity of a girl with her sound.
Apollo offered the caduceus to Hermes in exchange for the latter to get him the bread flute, the syringe, and the exchange took place. Description
It is also called double tube flute or double flute.
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