Pipe describes a number of musical instruments, historically referring to perforated wind instruments. The word is an onomotopoeia, and comes from the tone which can resemble that of a bird chirping.

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. Shepherd's 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 so versatile that it is also used in orchestral music, but it has seven finger holes and a thumb hole. A fipple mouthpiece uses a narrow windway and a blade-like edge to channel and vibrate air blown into it. ... In a draw in a mountainous region, a shepherd guides a flock of about 20 sheep amidst scrub and olive trees. ... Titians The Pastoral Concert Pastoral refers to the lifestyle of shepherds. ... Tin whistles in a variety of makes and keys. ... Various recorders The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle and ocarina. ...

Tabor Pipe

The three-holed pipe is a form of the folk pipe which is usually played with one hand, while the other hand plays a tabor or other drone instrument, such as a bell. Tabor, or tabret, refers to a portable snare drum. ... A bell is a simple sound-making device. ...

In English this instrument is properly called simply a pipe, but is often referred to as a tabor pipe to distinguish it from other instruments.

The tabor pipe has two finger holes and one thumb hole. In the English tradition, these three holes play the same notes as the bottom three holes of a tin whistle, or tone, tone, semitone. Other tabor pipes, such as the French galoubet or the Basque txistu, are tuned differently. Tin whistles in a variety of makes and keys. ...

The pipe and tabor was a common combination throughout Europe, during the mediæval period, and remains popular in some parts of Europe and the Americas today. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...

The English pipe and tabor had waned in popularity, but had not died out before a revival by Morris dance musicians in the early 20th century. A Morris dance is a form of folk dance. ...

Traditionally made of cane or of wood, today pipes are also available made of metal and of plastic.

Flageolet

The flageolet was developed from the tabor pipe, in France, and became an orchestral instrument. Its lower three holes were configured the same as a tabor pipe, with two on front and one on back. A second set of three holes was added above this. The mouthpiece had a unique configuration with a sponge inside. A Flageolet is a woodwind musical instrument and a member of the fipple flute family. ...

Used as orchestral instruments into the 19th Century, the flageolet was given keys, like in the orchestral flute. The Flute (Ger. ...

Reed Pipe

A reed pipe is an instrument which is similar in construction to the fipple flutes but instead of a whistle mouthpiece, has a (usually) double reed, like the oboe. A fipple mouthpiece uses a narrow windway and a blade-like edge to channel and vibrate air blown into it. ... Modern Oboe The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. ...

Hornpipe

A hornpipe is an instrument of the British Isles, made of animal horn, and has a free reed inside it. The British Isles consist of Great Britain, Ireland and a number of much smaller surrounding islands. ...

For Other Musical Pipes See

Bagpipes A piper playing the Great Highland Bagpipe. ...

Panpipes Pan pipes (also known as the panflute or the syrinx or quills) is an ancient musical instrument based on the principle of the stopped pipe, consisting usually of ten or more pipes of gradually increasing length. ...

Organ The Casavant pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Montreal The organ is a keyboard instrument with one or more manuals, and usually a pedalboard. ...