a primitive musical instrument made of a row or rows of reeds or tubes of graduated lengths bound together and played by blowing across the open upper ends
: also ˈpanpipes, Pan's pipes
Word origin
Pan1 + pipe
Examples of 'panpipe' in a sentence
panpipe
Alphanderry began whistling then, and this high-pitched sound was as sweet as any music that ever flowed from a panpipe.
David Zindell THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE (2002)