PANDEAN PIPE (Fr. Flûte de Pan; Ger. Syrinx). A simple instrument, of many forms and materials, which is probably the oldest and the most widely disseminated of any. It is thought to be identical with the Ugab, the first wind-instrument mentioned in the Bible (Gen. iv. 21, and Psalm cl.), in the former of these passages translated ‘organ,
’ in the latter, ‘pipe.
’ It was well known to the Greeks under the name of syrinx, being made with from three...
