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The panpipes (syrinx) was a musical wind instrument first used by the ancient Greeks. Most commonly played by shepherds, the earliest use was in the Cycladic islands in the third millennium BCE and representations of the instrument run right through the history of Greek art. Although in some accounts the invention of the instrument was attributed... [
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