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.
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Tibia or tibiae (Latin, singular and plural) were musical instruments of ancient Rome equivalent to Greek aulos (αὐλός). In Roman culture, the word stood for reedpipes and possibly duct flutes and trumpets. The word is similar to the English word pipes, in that — while it describes instruments that are blown through at the musician's mouth and have fingerholes to choose notes — the word lumps together different instruments which today would be put into different classes. Pipes in English can mean either reedpipes or duct flutes. Similarly, single-reed clarinets, double-reed shawms, duct flutes and lip sounded trumpets are all possibly described by the word tibia.
Tibia were used for religious ceremony in ancient Rome.
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