“Pity the panpipe. Though the traditional wind instrument has a long history in many different cultures around the world, it’s come to be associated with a certain rustic exoticism. That’s largely due to Zamfir, a Romanian musician whose diaphanous pan-flute jams featured in the soundtrack to The Karate Kid, and in so, so many TV ads on basic cable flogging compilations of his music in the late ’80”
