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Pandean pipes   Listen
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Pandean pipes  n. pl.  A primitive wind instrument, consisting of a series of short hollow reeds or pipes, graduated in length by the musical scale, and fastened together side by side; a syrinx; a mouth organ; said to have been invented by the god Pan. Called also pipes of Pan, Pan's pipes and Panpipes.






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... art to find subjects for their work in episodes of her life. The grand painting by Domenichino, at Bologna, in which the saint is represented as rapt in an ecstasy of devotion, with a small "organ," as it is called—an instrument resembling a large kind of Pandean pipes—in her hand, is well known, as is also Dryden's beautiful ode. The illustration which accompanies this chapter, after a painting by one of the brothers Caracci, of the seventeenth century, represents ...
— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller



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