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

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

From Roumania Past and Present by Samuelson, James

Players and riders,—men and women,—clothed in gay raiments, rendered brilliant with spangles, paced backwards and forwards along their platforms to the sound of drums, organs, and Pandean pipes, cymbals, tambourines, and castanets.

From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Leyland, Francis A.

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 Myrtle, Harriet

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 Krehbiel, Henry Edward

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 Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)