Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as Pan's pipes (which see, under pipe).

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Examples

  • She changed form, and pranced as she played her pan-pipe horn, two melodies in counterpoint.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • And those people who make the pan-pipe versions of Celine Dion songs that get played in Indian resturants across the country.

    The Dictatorship's Annual Survey Ms Robinson 2008

  • You could analyse a Jimi Hendrix guitar part, edit the notes a little, and replay it with pan-pipe samples over a new track, with the feel & vibe completely intact.

    Startup claims to have found music-tech Holy Grail 2005

  • Hendrix rendered in pan-pipe samples "with the feel and vibe intact?"

    Startup claims to have found music-tech Holy Grail 2005

  • OTOH, there's the interesting possibility that they can abstract two functions out of this software - the "notes being played" bit, and the "piano is played like this" bit... it'd be interesting if they can abstract other instruments, so instead of just "this is the same piece of music played with pan-pipe samples", you could get "here's the same piece of music, played as though a pan-pipe player were playing it..."

    Startup claims to have found music-tech Holy Grail 2005

  • When hushing the pan-pipe and double pipe, a stringed instrument she thrums.

    Hung Lou Meng 2003

  • Presently, became audible the notes of the pan-pipe and double flute, now soft, now loud, and the blended accents of the pipe and fife.

    Hung Lou Meng 2003

  • The early morning breeze rustled the reeds round the island and sang in the strange ribbed house as in a giant pan-pipe.

    The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

  • The early morning breeze rustled the reeds round the island and sang in the strange ribbed house as in a giant pan-pipe.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • The early morning breeze rustled the reeds round the island and sang in the strange ribbed house as in a giant pan-pipe.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

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