panpipe

noun

panpipe

noun

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

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.1988 May 27, Neil Tesser, “Albert Mangelsdorff”, in Chicago Reader:

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