pandean, -dæan, a. and n.
(pænˈdiːən)
[irreg. f. Pan n.2, on some mistaken analogy.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Pan. pandean pipe = pan-pipe. pandean harmonica, a mouth-organ resembling the Pan's pipe.
| 1807 (title) The Complete Preceptor for Davies's new invented Syrrynx or patent Pandean Harmonica. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 106 Wandering musicians with pandean pipes and tambourine. 1834 Hood Tylney Hall (1840) 249 A pandean band in those days as fashionable..as Weipparts' or Colinet's at the present time. 1864 Pinkerton in N. & Q. 3rd Ser. VI. 430 Their band, represented by one man with pandean pipe and drum. |
B. n. A member of a pandean band.
| a 1845 Hood To Mrs. Fry xiii, I like to hear your sweet Pandeans play. 1880 in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 644/1 At the commencement of the present century..itinerant parties of musicians, terming themselves Pandeans, went about the country, and gave performances. |