n.
A primitive wind instrument consisting of a series of pipes or reeds of graduated length bound together, played by blowing across the top open ends. Often used in the plural. Also called mouth organ, Pandean pipe, Also called syrinx.
panpipe
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(păn'pīp')
n.
A primitive wind instrument consisting of a series of pipes or reeds of graduated length bound together, played by blowing across the top open ends. Often used in the plural. Also called mouth organ, Pandean pipe, Also called syrinx.
n.
A primitive wind instrument consisting of a series of pipes or reeds of graduated length bound together, played by blowing across the top open ends. Often used in the plural. Also called mouth organ, Pandean pipe, Also called syrinx.
| Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: panpipe |
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Romanian panpipe; in the Horniman Museum, London (credit: Courtesy of the Horniman Museum, London)
Romanian panpipe; in the Horniman Museum, London (credit: Courtesy of the Horniman Museum, London)
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| Music Encyclopedia: Panpipes |
Instrument consisting of pipes of graduated lengths, joined together in the form of a bundle or a raft. They have no mouthpiece and are blown across their tops, while the lower ends are stopped. The earliest extant European depictions appear on bronze urns from north-east Italy and date from the 5th and 6th centuries bc. Panpipes were popular among the Etruscans and the ancient Greeks who considered them an instrument of low, merely rustic status. They appeared early in China where they are still popular. Today the panpipes are an important part of the folk music of Romania, Burma, Oceania (they are highly developed in the Solomon Islands) and all parts of South America, particularly in the Andean chain. The instrument's pastoral sound has attracted such composers as Telemann and Mozart, who used it in The Magic Flute; its tones have recently been used as a basis for electronic music.
| Columbia Encyclopedia: panpipes |
panpipes, Pandean pipes (păndē'ən), or syrinx (sĭr'ĭngks), musical wind instrument, consisting of graduated tubes closed at one end and fastened together. The player holds the instrument vertically and blows into the open end of the tube; each tube has its own pitch. Of Chinese origin, the instrument was known to the Greeks (who connected its origin with the legend of the god Pan and the nymph Syrinx who was changed into reeds). It survives in some parts of Europe, South East Asia, and South America.
| Translations: Panpipes |
Dansk (Danish)
n. pl. - panfløjter
Français (French)
n. pl. - flûte de Pan
Deutsch (German)
n. pl. - Panflöte
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. pl. - αυλός του Πανός
Italiano (Italian)
flauto di Pan, siringa
Português (Portuguese)
n. pl. - flautas de Pã (f pl)
Español (Spanish)
n. pl. - zampoña
Svenska (Swedish)
n. pl. - panflöjt, herdepipa
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
排箫
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. pl. - 排簫
עברית (Hebrew)
n. pl. - חליל קנים, חליל פן
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