pipes of Pan

plural noun

1. another term for panpipes

Example Sentences

He hung around the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a kid — sometimes sneaking in — and came to love paintings like Bonnard’s “Before Dinner,” Hopper’s “From Williamsburg Bridge” and Bertold Löffler’s “Youth Playing the Pipes of Pan.”

From New York Times

"I don't know if I possess the stamina to endure the incredible, constant strain of the full festival," wrote Jones on the album cover of his subsequent record, Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka.

From BBC

You will have lived for a little while in an exquisite pastoral—a pastoral through which, it is true, no pipes of Pan have fluted to you,—I heard little music in Greece,—but which has been full of that lightness, brightness, simplicity, and delicacy peculiar to Greece.

From Project Gutenberg

It will not do to say, that the first hut was built by God, and the last palace by degraded man; that the hoarse songs of the savage tribes were made by the Deity, but that Hamlet and Lear were written by man; that the pipes of Pan were invented in heaven, and all other musical instruments on the earth.

From Project Gutenberg

Lo! your gypsying soul Is caught and held fast in the pipes of Pan's flute.

From Project Gutenberg