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Shepherd's pipe   /ʃˈɛpərdz paɪp/   Listen
Shepherd's pipe

noun
1.
A small bagpipe formerly popular in France.  Synonym: musette.
2.
A small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes.  Synonyms: flageolet, treble recorder.






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"Shepherd's pipe" Quotes from Famous Books



... the ground, paying small heed to them. Now and again, when the sound of pattering feet and panting breath and the rustling and rending among the copses fell too far behind, he drew out his shepherd's pipe and blew a strain of music, shrill and plaintive, quavering and lamenting through the hollow night. He waited while the troops of gray and black scuffled and bounded and trotted near to him. Then he dropped the pipe into its place again ...
— The Unknown Quantity - A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales • Henry van Dyke

... shepherds, dwelt in grottos, wandered on the mountains and in valleys, and amused himself with the chase or in leading the dances of the nymphs. He was fond of music, and as we have seen, the inventor of the syrinx, or shepherd's pipe, which he himself played in a masterly manner. Pan, like other gods who dwelt in forests, was dreaded by those whose occupations caused them to pass through the woods by night, for the gloom and ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch



Words linked to "Shepherd's pipe" :   recorder, vertical flute, treble recorder, fipple flute, musette, fipple pipe, bagpipe, tabor pipe



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