Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A whistlelike mouthpiece for certain wind instruments, such as a recorder or flageolet, that channels the breath toward the sounding edge of a side opening.
- n. An object similar to a fipple in an organ pipe.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The under lip.
- n. A stopper, as at the mouth of a musical wind-instrument.
Wiktionary
- n. music The block (typically of wood) that forms the floor of the windway in a wind instrument.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder)
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Essentially half of a whistle, stiff side flaps loosely cover the nostrils and mouth; air blown from the nose travels down toward the mouth through a fipple, and the mouth forms the whistle's resonant chamber.”
“I did a lot of reading on the Web, learning terms like chiff and fipple.”
“The Clark Original is a conical barrel – the alternate is a cylinder – with a fipple, or mouthpiece, of wood inserted in the squared top.”
“Musicians sat in the corner: a jar-drum, a tambourine, trumpets, and a fipple flute.”
“One more to go later next month and then it just depends on whether or not I want a fipple on my fake foob or not.”
“A Flote by Any Other Name program, featuring performances by Naomi Senzer and Larry Zukof on transverse flute and fipple flute, and more. nmsmusicschool. org Laura Ouimette”
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