a musical instrument, various in kind. (See the articles Music and Organ.) Without entering into useless details regarding the ancient dūs and ἀβεῖς, we may mention that Strutt, in his Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, gives representations of the pipe and tabour, as used in England in the fourteenth century to accompany a dancing dog, a cock on stilts, a horse rearing, &c. From the drawings we cannot ascertain the nature of the pipe represented. We may, however, suppose it to have been similar to the galoubet used in France, along with the tabour, from a very remote period. This galoubet is a small instrument of the flageolet kind. Its use, for more than the last two centuries, has been confined to Provence. It has only three finger-holes, and is played with the left hand, whilst the right beats the tabour, which is attached to the performer. The compass of the galoubet is two octaves and a tone from D on the third line of the treble clef up to E in altissimo. Great skill is required to bring out all the sounds of its compass. Some of the players on this small and imperfect instrument are said to be so dexterous as to be able to perform upon it very difficult pieces of music composed for other instruments, such as the violin, &c. It is always accompanied by the tabour, which is a small drum of a cylindrical form, and rather longer and narrower in its relative proportions than the common drum.

in building and other employments or arts, a canal, or conduit, for the conveyance of water and other liquids. Pipes for water, water-engines, and the like, are usually of lead, iron, earth, or wood; the latter being usually made of oak or elder. Those of iron are cast in forges, and their usual length is about two feet and a half; several of these being commonly fastened together by means of four screws at each end, with leather or old hat between them to stop the water. Those of earth are made by the potters, and are fitted into one another, one end being always made wider than the other. To join them the closer, and prevent their breaking, they are covered with tow and pitch; their length being usually about that of the iron pipes. The wooden pipes are trees bored with large iron augres, of different sizes, beginning with a less, and then proceeding with a larger successively; the first being pointed, the rest being formed like spoons, increasing in diameter from one to six inches and more. See BORING.

Pipa, in Law, is a roll in the exchequer, called Pipe-office also the great roll.