fipple
IPA: fˈɪpʌɫ
noun
- (music) The mouthpiece of a ducted flute, or the plug forming the floor of the windway.
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Examples of "fipple" in Sentences
- I did a lot of reading on the Web, learning terms like chiff and fipple.
- Place the tip of the fipple between your lips, but not between your teeth.
- 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.
- The Clark Original is a conical barrel – the alternate is a cylinder – with a fipple, or mouthpiece, of wood inserted in the squared top.
- 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
- 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.
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