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Apollo vs Pan - The oldest musical challenge!

Myths tell that King Midas, tired of his wealth, decides one day to spend some time away from the court and takes refuge in the woods, where he knows the god Pan, half man and half goat (for this reason he is considered the progenitor and the protector of satyrs).

Pan often played the bagpipe or the "syringe", a kind of flute, and his famous panpipe, which takes its name from him.

Praised by Midas, completely ignorant of music, Pan decides to challenge the god Apollo himself.

The race is thus organized: Apollo with his lyre against Pan and his instruments.

Apollo wins easily, showing his superiority self-evidently, but Midas, from the height of his ignorance, decides his friend Pan as the winner.

Apollo, then angry and surprised by so much incompetence, as punishment makes King Midas grow donkey ears.


The MOC, which I made, resumes the end of the race, when Apollo, having won the match against Pan, makes Midas's donkey ears pop.


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