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  • noun Alternative spelling of panpipes.

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Examples

  • Unfortunately,Avatar makes this point with all the subtlety of a Daily Mail headline, accompanied by a terrible pan-pipes soundtrack, and rounded off with a awfully stereotyped view of a tribal society.

    Some Thoughts On Avatar « Stephen Gaskell 2010

  • He wandered the hills and mountains of Arkadia playing his pan-pipes and chasing Nymphs.

    Musical Panda - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Just so the old-fashioned rustic pan-pipes with their unequal reeds rise one above another.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses – Daedalus and Icarus | ultraorange.net 2007

  • She played a melody on her horn, and then a two-part tune, the pan-pipes playing counterpoint.

    Out of Phaze Anthony, Piers 1987

  • She played a melody on her horn, and then a two-part tune, the pan-pipes playing counterpoint.

    Out of Phaze Anthony, Piers 1987

  • Her pine-cone wand thrown down, her pan-pipes cast aside, the ivory-crowned nymph indulges in the dance.

    Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts Juliet Helena Lumbard James

  • He has just been moving his lips over the pan-pipes, but a rustle among the leaves has caused him to pause in his melody.

    Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts Juliet Helena Lumbard James

  • The performance is monotonous: some men with pan-pipes bend down with their heads touching, and blow with all their might, always the same note, marking time with their feet.

    Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914

  • Notwithstanding the general rude culture, the Moxos proper and Baure excelled in hammock-weaving, boat-making, pottery, and music, their favorite musical instrument being a sort of pan-pipes sometimes six feet in length.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Regius; these were inlaid by skilled artists with costly stones, such as lapis lazuli and malachite, crystals, blood-stone, jasper, agates and chalcedony, to represent fruit-pieces and magnificent groups of game or of musical instruments; while the pilasters were decorated with masks of the tragic and comic Muses, torches, thyrsi wreathed with ivy and vine, and pan-pipes.

    The Sisters — Volume 2 Georg Ebers 1867

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