Definitions
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- noun music An instrument consisting of a series of ten or more
tubes of different lengths, typically closed at the bottom and open at the top. The instrument is played by blowing across the open end at the top.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The girl chose the piano, and Fleta chose the syrinx: oth - erwise known as the panpipes, her natural instrument as a unicorn.
Robot Adept Anthony, Piers 1988
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Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea.
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Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea.
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Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea.
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Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea.
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Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea.
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Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea.
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Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea.
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Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea.
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Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea.
Prolagus commented on the word panpipes
Enjoy this panflute flowchart.
April 26, 2008
reesetee commented on the word panpipes
Hahaha! That's priceless, Pro--thanks.
April 26, 2008
uselessness commented on the word panpipes
I'll take two!
April 26, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word panpipes
You can buy the panflute flowchart T-shirt on the same website!
April 26, 2008
dontcry commented on the word panpipes
I enjoyed the panflute flowchart so much that it hurt a little! Thanks!
April 26, 2008
sionnach commented on the word panpipes
The panpipes flowchart somehow reminds me of this:
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April 26, 2008
asativum commented on the word panpipes
Pan-pipes always remind me of Lovecraft, though I think he may have just said pipes most of the time.
"There in the moonlight that flooded the spacious plain was a spectacle which no mortal, having seen it, could ever forget. To the sound of reedy pipes that echoed over the bog there glided silently and eerily a mixed throng of swaying figures, reeling through such a revel as the Sicilians may have danced to Demeter in the old days under the harvest moon beside the Cyane."
-- H.P. Lovecraft, The Moon-Bog
April 26, 2008
frindley commented on the word panpipes
See syrinx.
April 26, 2008