You know when I was a kid I used to think the pan flute…

Was awesome?

That too! But I thought it was a flute and a pan.

How could that even…

I know! But the name made me think it was a frying pan that had a flute attached!

That would be an awesome thing.

Right?

Hey, cook those eggs and play Bach at the same time!

Hell of a selling point.

Hell of.

Though, really, do we need pan flutes?

What do you mean by that?

Couldn’t we get along fine without them?

Sure, but we can get along fine without a lot of instruments, if you think about it.

I’m not thinking about them, just the pan flute.

What do you have against the pan flute?

It’s just so… it’s a bad idea.

In the right hands it can be a great thing.

that’s just it! Most of the hands that wrap around a pan flute are the wrong hands!

So you’re saying Zamfir and who else?

No one! Only Zamfir!

Well that would be easier. You could make a simple rule. If Zamfir then pan flute. Otherwise no.

Perfect!

He is Zamfir, master of the pan flute.

Dude if this rule were in place he would be more than that. He’d be like the Highlander of the Pan Flute.

Worst Highlander sequel ever.

Oh man. They’d all be pan fluting at each other.

Playing harder and harder until someone’s head exploded.

The audience’s.

Yeah.

Though at the end Zamfir would win.

But we’d know that from the start, right? I mean the moment Zamfir steps out it’s clear who the winner is.

This idea needs some work.

Maybe if we replace the pan flute with swords…

Hey yeah that’d work… hey wait a second!

Yeah.

That’s just Highlander!

Mmm-hmmm.

Fine, but still, I think we need far less pan flute in the world.