![sniffle :sniffle:](./images/smilies/icon_cry.gif)
Reason? I just heard this album:
http://www.crammed.be/taraf/index.htm
Hearing the flute on tracks 4 & 11, I thought "oh... pan flute, no wonder in Romania". Like--no way you could do that on a whistle, right?
Then I spotted the flautist is pictured in the photo below (up and left)... and it's a whistle he holds.
![Image](http://www.crammed.be/craworld/graphics/crw024a.jpg)
Btw the Great Censor and Marketing VP went through the translation with its Big Scissors:
"Taraf" really means "Band", but Haiduk a Robin Hood style of popular romanian brigand
By all means, get this essential sample of true Eastern Europe Gypsy music.
(This esp. if you thought ITM to be the fastest possible music in Europe trad'. Then tell me which beats are pan flute, and which whistle...
![wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_wink_144.gif)