Crossword clues for fipple
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.
Wiktionary
n. (context music English) The block (typically of wood) that forms the floor of the windway in a wind instrument.
WordNet
n. a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder)
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.
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.