פירוש על מלכים א 1:40

The flutes. Flute in O.F.

piped with pipes: This means that they were playing flutes. These are musical instruments, like in appearance to reeds, and they are pierced at intervals to give forth particular notes.

And the earth [seemed to] split. Prophets spoke in terms of exaggeration as [is common] among people.³⁵see Maseches Chulin 90b.