Pipe-Musical Instruments

A pipe is a tubular wind instrument in general, or various specific wind instruments. The word is an onomatopoeia, and comes from the tone which can resemble that of a bird chirping.

With just three holes, a pipe’s range is obtained by overblowing to sound at least the second or the third harmonic partials.

Folk pipe
Fipple flutes are found in many cultures around the world. Often with six holes, the shepherd’s pipe is a common pastoral image. Shepherds often piped both to soothe the sheep and to amuse themselves. Modern manufactured six-hole folk pipes are referred to as pennywhistle or tin whistle. The recorder is a form of pipe, often used as a rudimentary instructional musical instrument at schools, but versatile enough that it is also used in orchestral music.