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Open pipe

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(Mus.) a pipe open at the top. It has a pitch about an octave higher than a closed pipe of the same length.

See also: Open



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Fitted as standard with a six forward speed Getrag gearbox and a BTR limiter, left in full automatic the Aero 8 shows its mannered breeding and burbles along thrumming a melodious basso pro-fundo from the open pipes just below the doors.
CIGAR-PUFFING Miguel Angel Jiminez is always Havana laugh and yesterday at Birkdale he found a novel way to make sure his Open pipe dream didn't go up in smoke.
Aside from flooding the subway, last week's vicious storm--which unleashed three inches of rain per hour--caused a combined sewer overflow (CSO) forcing wastewater laden with resident's dirty little secrets past overfull treatment plants, through huge open pipes and into various points of the river.
 
 
 
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