fipple

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English[edit]

Cross-section of the head of a recorder, indicating the wooden fipple plug (A), a "ducted flue" windway (B), and the "labium" (C) which forms the far edge of the "voicing mouth"

Etymology[edit]

Perhaps related to Icelandic flipi (“lip of a horse”)

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

fipple (plural fipples)

  1. (music) The mouthpiece of a ducted flute, or the plug forming the floor of the windway.

Further reading[edit]

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