Cleopatra was sailing up the River Cydnus in a barge, its sails purple, its rowers urging it in with silver oars to the sound of the flute blended with pipes and lute.
One of the characters is Clarabelle Cow and she plays the flute and her glove gets stuck in the flute [chuckles] so, really strange without the glove on it.
To show that her departure would leave him unmoved, he skipped up and down the room, playing gaily on his heartless pipes. She had to run about after him, though it was rather undignified.
Here is Mars, there's Bacchus with his wine cup, Pan piping on a silver dish... and now I've arrived at what looks like another pagan god, this time in mosaic.
Aristotle had a different reason for saying the best flutes should go to the best flute players. He said, that's what flutes are for -- to be played well.