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This character is notable for having a flute or some other wind instrument, playing tunes that give a feeling of mystery or magic, and for being quite mysterious themselves. Bonus points if this character is a representation of nature or has the power of mind control or summoning.

See also: ElementalPowers, FriendToAllLivingThings, MagicMusic, WanderingMinstrel.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder: Anime and Manga]]
* ''Anime/ALittleSnowFairySugar'' -- The title character, using her flute to create snow.
* ''FushigiYuugi'' -- Amiboshi
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' -- Tayuya is this and MusicalAssassin. She can manipulate demonic dolls using it, as well as casting illusions.
* From ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'', this is how Aladdin summons Uugo, and how Pisti can befriend animals.
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[[folder:ComicBooks]]
* ''Franchise/TheSmurfs and the Magic Flute'' and its 2008 prequel ''The Flute Smurfers''. See also Western Animation.
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[[folder: Fairy Tales]]
* ''ThePiedPiperOfHamelin'' -- The titular character is this.
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[[folder:{{Film}}]]
* ''ClashOfTheTitans'' remake -- Subverted: The soldiers with Perseus have made camp, and one of them pulls a flute out of a bag. This film being what it is, you expect it to do something magical. He starts playing... and he's terrible, and nothing special happens. The lead soldier asks to see it, breaks it in half, and throws it aside. The player just gives him a level look, pulls another flute out of the bag and starts playing it just as poorly as before.
* ''TheDarkCrystal'' - Jen's split flute comes in handy for identifying the true shard and in a bonding scene with fellow Gelfling Kira.
* ''EscapeToWitchMountain'' (1975) -- Tony plays a harmonica to increase his telekinetic powers.
* ''KillBill'' - Bill plays a wooden flute which lends to his mysteriousness.
* ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' -- One of JamesBond's opponents is a man who plays the role of the voodoo loa Baron Samedi. Bond once encounters him while he's playing a flute. After apparently being killed by venomous snakes, at the end he appears riding the front of a train, indicating that he may be the real Baron Samedi.
* ''WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' -- Wonka uses a flute to issue commands to the Oompa-Loompas.
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[[folder:{{Literature}}]]
* Edgar Pangborn -- His short story "Tiger Boy" might count. The eponymous youth plays a set of pan pipes, runs wild and naked, and has a fully-grown tiger as a companion. The pipes attract a mute teenage village boy to Tiger Boy's side (possible echoes of the Pied Piper). However, he's not actually magical - it's a feudal, [[AfterTheEnd post-holocaust]] world. (He's certainly [[AnyoneCanDie not immortal]] either.)
* ''TheElenium'' -- A young girl [[spoiler:,the Goddess Aphrael,]] who [[spoiler:seemingly]] doesn't talk but does play the flute is named Flute by our heroes.
* ''TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'' -- The faun Mr. Tumnus (the first Narnian we meet) played a flute lullaby to Lucy on her first trip to Narnia.
* ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' -- Chester Centaur's magical talent is to manifest and play a magical flute.
* The Rat Piper in ''Discworld/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents'' (the ''real'' one, not the stupid-looking kid) works very hard at maintaining this image. Maurice and Keith [[LegendaryImpostor trade on his reputation]].
* The [[EldritchAbomination Blind Idiot God]] Azathoth in the CthulhuMythos enjoys himself some flute music, which undoubtley be at least extremely [[BrownNote unpleasant]] to human listeners.
* The Piper of ''TheKeysToTheKingdom'', who is based on ThePiedPiperOfHamelin, uses his pipes to control children and rats.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''FraggleRock'' -- Cantus played a magical forked pipe.
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[[folder:{{Mythology}}]]
* ''ClassicalMythology'' -- The Greek god Pan could induce fear and panic with his pipes.
* Native American US' Southwest -- Kokopelli is this, mixed with the fertility role, thus giving a new meaning to his flute
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[[folder:{{Opera}}]]
* ''Theatre/TheMagicFlute'' -- Naturally, and there are also magic bells involved.
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[[folder:{{TabletopGames}}]]
* The ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' spellcaster monster [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Mystic_Piper Mystic Piper]] lets you draw a card and if it's a level 1 monster card an extra one, once.

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[[folder:{{TabletopRPG}}]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' -- [[FaunsAndSatyrs Satyrs]] have pipes that they can use to create magical effects.
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[[folder: Theater]]
* ''FiddlerOnTheRoof'' -- The titular fiddler is the embodiment of the Jewish spirit.
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[[folder: VideoGames]]
* ''FireEmblemElibe'' -- Nils plays the flute, allowing one character to make an extra move, and later in the game, providing status buffs.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series -- Link, although he himself is not very mysterious since he is the player-character. His instrument also varies from game to game: recorders, ocarinas, pan pipes, etc. Sometimes, though, such as in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', Link gets his flute from a character who plays this trope straight.
* ''{{Mushihime-sama}} BUG PANIC!'' -- A mysterious girl who appears in the cutscenes [[spoiler: named Sora]]
* ''NiGHTS'' -- The eponymous character herself plays the invisible flute.
* ''{{VideoGame/Okami}}'' -- Waka, who provides the page image, is named after a form of Japanese poetry. His appearance is always announced by the sound of a flute, and he tells cryptic, yet accurate prophecies.
** Then from the sequel, ''{{VideoGame/Okamiden}}'', there's Kurow, who not only bears an uncanny resemblance to Waka, but in the same vain as him plays a flute.
* ''SeikenDensetsu3'' -- A magic flute summons a big goggles-wearing turtle at beaches.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' -- A magic whistle can be used to skip whole worlds.
* ''DynastyWarriors'' -- Zhen Ji's primary weapon is a magic flute that she also uses to hit people over the head.
* ''FinalFantasyIX'' -- Eiko, a [[WhiteMage white mage]] and [[SummonMagic summoner]], can use flutes as [[InstrumentOfMurder weapons]].
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[[folder: WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' -- A few shorts have parodied ''The Pied Piper'':
** Porky Pig played the Piper in a couple of cartoons. In one he has to contend with a cat angry with him for ridding Hamelin of rats.
** Sylvester tried to make a flute to capture Speedy Gonzalez and friends. Also, Sylvester Jr. found that he could attract different animals by adding holes to the flute.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} Forever After'' -- The Pied Piper is a bounty hunter, his flute adjustable to whatever creature he wanted to hypnotize (in this case, ogres).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAndTheMagicFlute'' -- Peewit stumbles upon the magic flute of the Smurfs that makes whoever listens to it dance to its tune. It ends up in the possession of a thief named Matthew [=McCreep=], who uses it to make people pass out from the dancing so he can rob them.
* In ''{{Thundercats 2011}}'', Wileykit can send people into a trance by playing a sort of ring-shaped ocarina.
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[[folder: RealLife]]
* The Japanese ''shakuhachi'' is strongly associated with the ''Fuke'' sect of Zen Buddhism, who used the instrument as part of their meditative process. When the Meiji government cracked down on the previous bakufu and all associated religions, they specifically attacked the practice of playing the shakuhachi.
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