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fipple flute

noun

, Music.
  1. a recorder or other flutelike instrument equipped with a fipple.


fipple flute

noun

  1. an end-blown flute provided with a fipple, such as the recorder or flageolet
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fipple flute1

First recorded in 1910–15
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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.

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

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