Shepherd's instrument

Usage examples of panpipe.

Fleta played a merry ditty on her horn, theme and countertheme on the panpipes, as if the two of them had not a care in the frame.

Bulletins from Party Headquarters are spelled out in obscene charades by hebephrenics and Latahs and apes, Sollubis fart code, Negroes open and shut mouth to Hash messages on gold teeth, Arab rioters send smoke signals by throwing great buttery eunuchs -- they make the best smoke, hangs black and shit-solid in the air -- onto gasoline fires in a rubbish heap, mosaic of melodies, sad Panpipes of humpbacked beggar, cold wind sweeps down from post card of Chimborazzi, flutes of Ramadan, piano music down a windy street, mutilated police calls, advertising leaflet synchronize with street fight spell SOS.

It was a small sacrifice in order to dance to the driving, exotic rhythms of bongo drums, Bobby’s bass chants, and the husky, eerie notes of the Bolivian panpipes that he loved.

As she closed the cupboard behind her, the husky keening of the panpipes faded into a spectral whisper, then into silence.

I knew how deceptive distance and direction can be when you're trying to follow a sound in a forest, so I kept shouting at five-second intervals, listening for the music of the panpipes in between.

Forrest brought out his panpipes and played a merry melody for their hosts.

The girl chose the piano, and Fleta chose the syrinx: otherwise known as the panpipes, her natural instrument as a unicorn.

She had, as a matter of private challenge, learned to play the panpipes in girlform.

No, they merely liked the music, perhaps not having heard the panpipes as played by a unicorn before.

The bone flute shrieks, the panpipes make their breathy sound, the gongs tremble, the little drums, with a final flourish, tum-te-tum into silence.

Though we could not see musicians from where we stood, the sounds of their instruments came to us clearly: drums, gongs, trumpets, panpipes, and several sonorous stringed instruments.

The ritual personages unshackled it from the eye, hauled it in, and carried thick coils of it away eastward to the accompaniment of panpipes and gongs.