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panpipes

Meaning of "panpipes" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PANPIPES

ˈpænˌpaɪps


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PANPIPES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Panpipes is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PANPIPES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pan flute

The pan flute or pan pipe is an ancient musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting usually of five or more pipes of gradually increasing length. The pan flute has long been popular as a folk instrument, and is considered the first mouth organ, ancestor of both the pipe organ and the harmonica. The pipes of the pan flute are typically made from bamboo or giant cane; other materials used include wood, plastic, metal and ivory.

Definition of panpipes in the English dictionary

The definition of panpipes in the dictionary is a number of reeds or whistles of graduated lengths bound together to form a musical wind instrument Also called: pipes of Pan, syrinx.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PANPIPES

apocalypse · bagpipes · clips · cripes · drainpipes · drapes · eclipse · ellipse · forceps · gapes · grapes · grips · MIPS · Phillips · pipes · snips · stovepipes · swipes · tripes · whips

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PANPIPES

panoptical · panoptically · panopticon · panorama · panoramic · panoramic screen · panoramic sight · panoramic view · panoramically · panpharmacon · panpsychism · panpsychist · panpsychistic · panradiometer · pansexual · pansexualism · pansexualist · pansexuality · pansied · pansies

WORDS THAT END LIKE PANPIPES

editiones principes · forcipes · Irish pipes · Pan pipes · Stars and Stripes · stipes · talipes · the pipes · the Stars and Stripes · uillean pipes · union pipes · yipes · zebra stripes

Synonyms and antonyms of panpipes in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «panpipes» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PANPIPES

Find out the translation of panpipes to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of panpipes from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «panpipes» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

排箫
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

zampoñas
570 millions of speakers
en

English

panpipes
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

panpipes
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

panpipes
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

свирель
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

panpipes
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

panpipes
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

flûte de pan
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Panpipes
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Panflöte
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

panpipes
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

panpipes
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Panpipes
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

panpipes
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

panpipes
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

पॅन पाईप्स
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

panflüt
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

flauto di Pan
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

panpipes
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

сопілка
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

nai
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

panpipes
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

panfluit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

panpipes
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

panfløyte
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of panpipes

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PANPIPES»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about panpipes

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PANPIPES»

Discover the use of panpipes in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to panpipes and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic ...
All panpipes appear in a "choral" setting, as uniform panpipe pairs. In contrast to the urban folk groups (conjuntos) of mestizos, the Indians do not mix panpipes with other instruments such as the notched flute (kena), the duct flute (pinkillo ...
Malena Kuss
2
A Sourcebook of Nasca Ceramic Iconography: Reading a Culture ...
MUS-2 (effigy musician). After Pezzia 1968: fig. 25-4. Fig. 5.130. MI-1 (ceramic panpipe). After Rossel Castro 1977. MI-I: Panpipes At least nineteen examples of ceramic panpipes are present in my sample. These range in size from one having ...
Donald A. Proulx, 2009
3
Sounds of Secrets: Field Notes on Ritual Music and Musical ...
Various types of panpipes with differences in form, size and number of tubes existed in Vanuatu at the time of the first encounter with colonisation (Gunn 1914: 200). Speiser (1991:378) found raft panpipes on the following islands in 1911: ...
Raymond Ammann, 2012
4
Lucy Plays Panpipes for Peace: An Novel
Lucy, a California free-spirit and SGI Buddhist, follows the sound of the panpipes to the Andes, seeking to find or create the ideal society of which the panpipes sing.
Lynette Yetter, 2010
5
Library of Congress Subject Headings
P233] UF Parra Pans (Caste) BT Caste—India Dalits Ethnology—India NT Jayantira Panos Panpanpanella USE Crested bellbird Panpipes (May Subd Geog) [ML990.P3 (History) [MT533.P3 (Instruction) UF Antara Nai Pan flute Pan pipes ...
Library of Congress, 2006
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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Aerophones As suggested by the archaeological record on the Peruvian coast, panpipes, end-blown notched flutes, trumpets, whistles, and ocarinas were the major pre-Hispanic wind instruments. A transverse flute with two holes for fingering ...
‎1998
7
Making Art with Wood
The Ancient Greeks had huge rowing boats called triremes. To help the rowers keep in time, a musician played two pipes made out of wood. The pipes were known as auloi, and the musician was the aulete. Panpipes Bind the pipes together ...
Gillian Chapman, Pam Robson, 2007
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The Ancient Andean Village: Marcaya in Prehispanic Nasca
Panpipes Panpipes (or antaras) have been found in numerous contexts in excavations in Nasca. Giuseppi Orefici has found a large cache of hundreds of panpipes at Cahuachi in the Great Temple (Orefici 1993:146). This augments a sample ...
Kevin J. Vaughn, 2009
9
Ethnology of Vanuatu
They are the true musical instruments; simple monotonous melodies are played on them for hours, over and over again. The fingernails of the free hand also rap against the flute in a certain rhythm. PANPIPES There are two forms of these: the  ...
Felix Speiser, 1999
10
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
But if the classical annals are mute on the subject of boxwood Panpipes, ancient works of art are eloquent concerning the god's preference for the Panpipe of multiple channels. Once more the archaeological record offers the possibility for a ...
D. R. Shackleton Bailey, 1982

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PANPIPES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term panpipes is used in the context of the following news items.
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The jandal man of the North Shore
... when Dadson and cohorts, including Geoff Chapple, Wayne Laird and Don McGlashan, thwacked their giant PVC panpipes-cum-marimbas. «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
2
Did You Know? 10 Facts About The Craft
Called Panpipes Magickal Marketplace, it supposedly is the oldest occult store in the U.S. Other films and TV shows such as Unsolved ... «moviepilot.com, Jul 15»
3
Family of Georgia man who died in custody: 'We want to know why'
Pick. Report. panpipes · 8 Jun 2015 4:56. 8 9 ... sclemens panpipes. 8 Jun 2015 5:42. 7 8 ... Report. sclemens panpipes. 8 Jun 2015 5:53. 2 3. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
4
Barking and Dagenham pupils make and play their own panpipes
The sound of panpipes has rung out across two Barking and Dagenham primary schools as part of a joint project. «Barking and Dagenham Post, Jun 14»
5
Panpipes and Sax Action: Here's Slime's Latest Track "Scatter"
Somehow shadowy, London-based electronocist Slime makes panpipes sound textural, wonky, and cool. Not like they're part of the soundtrack ... «Noisey, Apr 14»
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