pipes of pan

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pipes of pan - 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.
     [1913 Webster]