pandean pipes

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pandean pipes - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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  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.
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     2. (Anat.) The lower larynx in birds.
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     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.
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