Painting of the French painter Francois Boucher “Pan and Siringa.” The size of the painting is 80 x 110 cm, canvas, oil. This picture of Bush illustrates the story of Ovid’s Metamorphosis. Syringa, in the Greek mythology the naiad, who revered Artemis and therefore strictly kept her virginity.
Pan, seized with love passion, pursued the nymph Shiringu. Siringa fled from the pursuing Pan to the Ladon River, where she asked for help from her nymph sisters and the river goddess. Therefore, it was turned by the deity of the Ladon River into a reed when the god of fields and pastures of Pan were touched by Siring. Pan cut a shepherd’s syring from a reed.
Syringa – the ancient Greeks had a musical instrument that was considered an accessory of the Arcadian god Pan and, at the same time, the Greek shepherds. Syringa was done as follows. We took 7 hollow stems of reeds and attached them to each other with the help of wax, and the length of each tube was made different in order to have a full scale.
There was a syringe of Syringa and one stem: in this case it was played the same way as it is played on modern flutes, namely through the side holes. Syringa was the ancestor of the modern organ.
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