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Pan-de′an pipes.

The emblems of Pan, the rural divinity of the Greeks, were a shepherd's crook and a pipe of seven reeds.

Pandean pipes.

The reeds are bound together in a parallel series, the months on a level and the lengths so proportioned as to give the notes of the gamut.

The instrument yet survives in England as an accessory to the exercises of Punch, playing the air to a base-drum accompaniment. See syrinx.

A porcelain representation of the Pandean pipes was found by Dr. Abbott at Sakkarah.

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