- Can play a sustained tone lasting for 2 1/2 minutes.
- Over 120 million records sold, winning 120 gold and platinum disc awards.
- Resides and teaches panpipe in Bucharest, Romania. (2006)
- Expanded the traditional Romanian-style 20-piped pan flute to 22, 25, 28 and 30 pipes to increase its range.
- By loosening and tightening his embouchure, he can obtain as many as nine tones from each pipe.
- Performed at Carnegie Hall, New York in 1981.
- He became famous in the United States through a record that was sold on TV and contained a selection of his music. He was simply called "Zamfir" and "The King of the Pan Flute".
- He only plays pan flutes 'right handed'.
- Began playing pan flute when he was 14 years old.
- Was the conductor of "Ciocarlia" (Skylark) Folk Ensemble in Bucharest in 1969.
- Wrote an instructional book for the pan flute: "Traité Du Naï Roumain: Méthode de flûte de pan". Paris: Chappell S.A., 1975. ISBN 88-8291-286-8.
- His first name Gheorghe is pronounced "Geor-ge".
- Wrote an autobiography: "Binecuvantare Si Blestem" [Blessing & Curses]. Arad: Mirador, 2000. ISBN 973-9284-9256-6.
- Originally wanted to become an accordionist.
- Studied under Fanica Luca at the Bucharest Academy of Music.
- He graduated in Conducting from the Conservatory of Bucharest in 1968.
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