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SYRINX
A classical music word search puzzle by ALLAN RAE
The syrinx, a predominantly pastoral instrument for the Greeks, was adopted by the Etruscans who played it at their festivals and banquets. The Etruscans called it fistula. It's also known as the pan flute or panpipes of ancient Greece and Rome, named after the Greek god Pan.
The Greek god Pan (left), who taught his lover Daphnis,
the legendary Sicilian cowherd, said to be the inventor
of pastoral poetry, to play the panpipes:
a first century BC Roman replica of a
second century BC Greek original
The word syrinx is one of the many words hidden in my latest word search puzzle, below, provided here for your weekend entertainment, similar to those which I've published here previously.
My 'Find a word' puzzle Syrinx is shown above. How many words can you find? If the puzzle is not visible, or if you can't see the letters in the puzzle clearly, then please click here. All of the words below are hidden in the puzzle above. If you can't see the list of words clearly, please click here.
You may find it useful to print out both the puzzle and the word list, so that you can mark the squares with a stroke and mark the words that you've already found.
Just to remind you, words in these puzzles can be hidden vertically, horizontally, diagonally and in retrograde.
The solution is complex as many letters are used multiple times, making these puzzles very dense, so only marking a line 'stroke' through the word is necessary. (Many commercial puzzles specify that each word should be circled when found; on these hand drawn puzzles, however, it is necessary just to stroke.)
Some of the words in the puzzle may be unfamiliar, so while you attempt to solve the puzzle, why not also try looking up those words that you don't know - for example Cebell, Kithara, Magadise or Roxolane - to improve your vocabulary.
Good luck! Please let me know how you get on, via the Classical Music Daily contact page. You can also suggest words - composers, compositions, musical terms etc - for future puzzles. I have a dictionary of sorts containing at least 2,500 music terms, and have made several hundred puzzles like the one above. More next month!
Copyright © 9 August 2024
Allan Rae,
Calgary, Canada