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whoever calls the tune eventually arrives, hand out, demanding to be paid
means A person who plays the pipes, especially the bagpipes or a similar wind instrument.
from From Old English 'pipere,' simply 'one who plays a pipe,' built on 'pipe' — a word that wandered into Germanic and Romance tongues alike from Latin 'pipare,' to chirp or peep, itself an imitation of the thin, high sound a bird (or a reed) makes. The famous 'pay the piper' lives in the Pied Piper of Hamelin legend, where a hired piper, cheated of his fee, lures the town's children away — a folk tale, but one that fixed the idea that music has a price.
- folk debt
- Paying the piper means facing overdue consequences
- hamelin
- Legendary piper led 130 children away in 1284
- plumbing kin
- Surname meant pipe-player, gave us actress Piper Laurie
- aircraft
- Piper Cub trained countless WWII pilots cheaply
piper pa-28 cherokee — single-engine aircraft first produced in 1960, over 32,000 built for civilian and training use
pied piper of hamelin — legendary figure from 13th century german town who allegedly led away 130 children in 1284
piper perri — adult film actress who became an internet meme after a 2014 photograph