syrinx: see panpipes panpipes, Pandean pipes , or syrinx , musical wind instrument, consisting of graduated tubes closed at one end and fastened together.
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Wind instrument consisting of pipes of different lengths made of cane (less often wood, clay, or metal) arranged in a row. It is blown across the top, each pipe producing a different note. The panpipe dates from c. 2000 BC and is found worldwide, especially in eastern Africa, South America, and Melanesia.
syrinx [′sir·iŋks]
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panpipe
or syrinx)
Romanian panpipe; in the Horniman Museum, London
(credit: Courtesy of the Horniman Museum, London)
syrinx [′sir·iŋks]
(paleontology)
A tube surrounding the pedicle in certain fossil brachiopods.
(vertebrate zoology)
The vocal organ in birds.
syrinx
In ancient Egypt, a narrow and deep rock-cut channel or tunnel forming a characteristic feature of Egyptian tombs of the New Empire.
Syrinx
transformed into reeds which pursuing Pan made into pipe. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 232; Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses]
See : Music
Syrinx
nymph, pursued by Pan, was changed into a reed, from which Pan made his pipes. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 876]
See : Transformation
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