Panpipe

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A set of panpipes.

    "No matter that the trombone would seem to be an instrument particularly ill-suited to the purpose; in Mangelsdorff's hands, it might as well be anything from a panpipe to a cello."

  2. 2
    a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together wordnet

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"No matter that the trombone would seem to be an instrument particularly ill-suited to the purpose; in Mangelsdorff's hands, it might as well be anything from a panpipe to a cello."

Etymology

From Pan (“Greek god of nature”) + pipe.

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