'Pandean pipes' definitions:
Definition of 'Pandean pipes'
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- Pandean pipes \Pan*de"an 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'pandean pipes'
From: GCIDE
- Syrinx \Syr"inx\, n.; pl. Syringes. [NL., from Gr. ? a pipe.]
- 1. (Mus.) A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Anat.) The lower larynx in birds. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In birds there are two laringes, an upper or true, but voiceless, larynx in the usual position behind the tongue, and a lower one, at or near the junction of the trachea and bronchi, which is the true organ of the voice. [1913 Webster]