The Fisherman and his Flute which the illustrator to the latter author makes a trumpet. In La Fontaine’s French version the instrument is referred to as a ‘musette’ which, since his fable is titled “The Fishes and the Shepherd who Played the Flute” ("Les poissons et le berger qui joue de la flûte", X.10), must refer to the old piccolo oboe. Nevertheless, it was translated as bagpipe by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, in her rendering of his poem. La Fontaine had made of the story an artificial pastoral in which Tircis tried to charm the fishes to the hook of the shepherdess Annette but
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute and Peewit give the flutes back to the Smurfs, and after they leave, Peewit starts playing the flute, only to realize (to his horror) that it has no effect on the townsfolk; it is the fake flute he had made! The film is based on "La Flûte à six trous" ("The Flute with Six Holes"), which appeared in the Belgian weekly comic "Spirou" magazine in 1958/59. Subsequent book publications renamed it as "La Flûte à six Schtroumpfs" ("The Flute with Six Smurfs"), which was also the French title of the film. In 2008, a prequel "Les Schtroumpfeurs de flûte" ("The