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fipple
[ fip-uhl ]
noun
, Music.
- a plug stopping the upper end of a pipe, as a recorder or a whistle, and having a narrow slit through which the player blows.
fipple
/ ˈfɪpəl /
noun
- a wooden plug forming a flue in the end of a pipe, as the mouthpiece of a recorder
- a similar device in an organ pipe with a flutelike tone
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fipple1
C17: of unknown origin
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Example Sentences
The tone is the true flute tone, brilliant and sympathetic.54 The old English fipple flute, or fl�te � bec, is described under the headings Recorder and Flageolet.
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Musicians sat in the corner: a jar-drum, a tambourine, trumpets, and a fipple flute.
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