Definition of "panpipes" []

• An instrument consisting of a series of ten or more tubes of different lengths, typically closed at the bottom and open at the top. The instrument is played by blowing across the open end at the top. (noun)

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• "The girl chose the piano, and Fleta chose the syrinx: oth - erwise known as the panpipes, her natural instrument as a unicorn."
• "Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea."
• "X-rays showed that the adult male-who was buried with items of social prestige such as panpipes, a four-pointed hat, and a snuffing tray-had damage near the nose, perhaps from sniffing."