Pandean pipes

American  

plural noun

1. panpipe.

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Etymology

Origin of Pandean pipes

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

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Pandean pipes

Always, while he was preparing some new trick, a man kept playing on the Pandean pipes, and beating a drum at the same time.

From The Pleasures of the Country Simple Stories for Young People by Harriet Myrtle

There was the music—the same Scotch reels and Irish jigs, played on squeaking fiddles, which were made more inharmonious by the accompaniment of shrill Pandean pipes.

From Run to Earth A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The first wooden flutes were doubtless the Pandean pipes, in which the tone was produced by blowing across the open ends of hollow reeds.

From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Henry Edward Krehbiel

These usually play upon one or two violins, a mandoline, and the Pandean pipes.

From Roumania Past and Present by James Samuelson

Tell Fang Kuan to sing us the 'Hsün Meng' ballad; and let only flutes and Pandean pipes be used.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly