fipple

American  

[fip-uhl] / ˈfɪp əl /

noun

Music.

1. 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.

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fipple British  

/ ˈfɪpəl /

noun

1. a wooden plug forming a flue in the end of a pipe, as the mouthpiece of a recorder

2. a similar device in an organ pipe with a flutelike tone

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Etymology

Origin of fipple

1620–30; perhaps special use of dial. fipple loose lower lip, pouting lip; compare Old Norse flipi lower lip of a horse, Norwegian flipe flap, lappet. See flip ¹, flap, flabby

Example Sentences

Milton and Pepys praised the pennywhistle notes of the fipple.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

Musicians sat in the corner: a jar-drum, a tambourine, trumpets, and a fipple flute.

From Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine) by May, Karl Friedrich