panpipe

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English

Some panpipe

Etymology

From Pan (Greek god of nature) +‎ pipe.

Noun

panpipe (plural panpipes)

  1. A set of panpipes
    • 1988 May 27, Neil Tesser, “Albert Mangelsdorff”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      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.