Etymology

panpipes

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Today it means: An instrument consisting of a series of ten or more tubes of different lengths, typically closed at the bottom and open at the top, and is played by blowing across the open end at the top. Full definition →

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The story

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

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