syrinx
- noun
- /ˈsɪrɪŋks/
:
siringa
- Pan was as rough as the country, half goat, half god, but Virgil preferred to idealize him by concentrating on a single aspect of his complex powers: the fact that he had invented the syrinx, now called the panpipe, and taught shepherds to play it and sing to it.
Examples
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During the festival, she played traditional songs on her syrinx, captivating the audience.
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The children danced around the fire, entranced by the beautiful melodies of the syrinx.
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And fills the woods with his insistent syrinx.
Academic text (1998) -
I even imagined myself swinging from a palm tree, clad in nothing but my silk briefs imprinted with an image of Pan tootling his syrinx to a bevy of naked dryads.
Fiction book (1992) -
He learned to craft his own syrinx from bamboo, creating music that echoed through the hills.
Synonyms
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A set of tubes of different lengths that you blow across to make music
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A musical instrument that makes sound when you blow air, often using a reed, like a clarinet or oboe
A set of pipes of different lengths tied together that you play by blowing across the tops
Surface Forms
Etymology
Syrinx was the Greek name for the panpipes and comes from a word meaning 'pipe' or 'tube'. One famous story says a nymph named Syrinx turned into reeds that became those pipes, so the name helps you remember the instrument is a set of small 'pipes' tied together.