Pipe (instrument)
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A pipe is a tubular wind instrument in general, or various specific wind instruments.[1] The word is an onomatopoeia, and comes from the tone which can resemble that of a bird chirping [citation needed].
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With just three holes, a pipe's range is obtained by overblowing to sound at least the second or the third harmonic partials.