Photo Gallery

An Aymara Indian plays the zampoña or panpipe, which is made up of a certain number of reed pieces of different lengths. - Hacienda San Juan de Chuquibambilla, Puno - 1969

In the vast and infinite silence of the Altiplano, the Aymara have been playing their zampoña since time immemorial ... whose wistful and strange sounds are carried away by the mountain winds.

The legends are only available in German, French or Spanish
Exhumés de tombeaux pré-inca et inca, ces très vieux instruments sont conservés au Museo Yoshitaro Amano de Lima, Pérou. Trouvée à Palpa, dans les sables des déserts, la zampoña (flûte de Pan américaine, 32 cm) est faite de bambous inégaux liés avec des cordelettes végétales. La petite zampoña on a trouvé à Lauri, Chancay.

An Indian in the Peruvian Altiplano plays the zampoña with an enraptured expression, the sounds of which (perhaps a yaraví or triste?) are able to convey all the melancholy of the vastness and loneliness. - Chuquibambilla, Puno - 1976

An Indian in the Peruvian Altiplano plays the zampoña with an enraptured expression, the sounds of which (perhaps a yaraví or triste?) are able to convey all the melancholy of the vastness and loneliness. - Chuquibambilla, Puno - 1976

Folklore festival in Cuzco - a musician from Taquile Island on Lake Titicaca playing the Zampoña. - 1969