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Answer for the clue "A wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder) ", 6 letters:
fipple

Word definitions for fipple in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fipple \Fip"ple\ (f[~e]r), n. [perh. fr. L. fibula a clasp, a pin; cf. Prov. E. fible a stick used to stir pottage.] A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music. [Obs.] --Bacon.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A fipple is a constricted mouthpiece common to many end-blown flutes , such as the tin whistle and the recorder . These instruments are known variously as fipple flutes , duct flutes , or tubular-ducted flutes .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context music English) The block (typically of wood) that forms the floor of the windway in a wind instrument.

Usage examples of fipple.

White Lady has even given me a new fipple flute, so that I can cheer our journey with music!

Then, from behind him, far off, he heard a faint whistling as of air flowing through fipple pipes.

This was probably a vertical or fipple type, as in Terran recorders, though the transverse type may have been known as well from Terran imports.