Jack Vance's languages Re: Musical conlangs

>Now I come to think of it, Jack Vance wrote a story about an alien race,
the
>Kaa, who had a flutish/flutey language.  And they had large sections of
>continuous narrative to indicate states of mind, requests, arguments,
>whathaveyou ...  I also can't recall the novel's title, but the central
>character was an interesting muso called Gastel Etzwane.
Jack Vance has a book called "The Languages of Pao", hasn't he? Is it good?
What is it really about? Is this novel, perchance, in it?

- Markus Miekk-oja

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