Most flutes involve a single cylinder that you blow across or into with holes that you

cover or uncover to raise or lower the instrument's pitch.

A pan flute is pretty different from that, though, in effect binding together a bunch of

flutes and letting you play them all at once.

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On this episode, it's time to dig up my dusty reading glasses and rummage through the

mailbag because I've got a whole bunch of your listener questions to answer, and only

about an hour to do it.

We've got pop counterpoint, indie cross rhythms, and some Peter Gabriel, so let's get out

our letter opener, stack up some envelopes, and get into it.

Hello everyone, I'm so excited to answer your questions.

On this, the first mailbag episode of Strong Songs Season 5, as always, before we get into

it, if you have a question that you'd like me to consider answering on the show, send

it to listeners at StrongSongsPodcast.com.

No guarantees that I'll answer it.

I get too many questions to fit into Q&A's at this point, but I thank everybody who's

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