From those simple pieces of reed, cut off just below the knot, which formed the pipes of the syrinx, to the complicated, elaborate and perfect machinery which is hidden beneath the organ case there, is the same degree of difference, as there is between the rough-hewn canoe of the savage, and the wonderful perfection of the liners, which run their weekly race across the broad Atlantic.
"The Operatic Problem"
William Johnson Galloway
A few days before, I had made a careful study of the syrinx of this bird, whom we may call rather euphoniously Trogonurus curucui, and had been struck by the simplicity both of muscles and bones.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
This is the story of syrinx, the reed, as Ovid has told it to us.
"A Book of Myths"
Jean Lang