Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
- noun An object similar to a fipple in an organ pipe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The under lip.
- noun A stopper, as at the mouth of a musical wind-instrument.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music The
block (typically ofwood ) that forms the floor of the windway in awind instrument .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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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I did a lot of reading on the Web, learning terms like chiff and fipple.
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The Clark Original is a conical barrel – the alternate is a cylinder – with a fipple, or mouthpiece, of wood inserted in the squared top.
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Musicians sat in the corner: a jar-drum, a tambourine, trumpets, and a fipple flute.
Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine) Karl Friedrich May 1877
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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.
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Place the tip of the fipple between your lips, but not between your teeth.
unknown title 2009
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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
Gammerstang commented on the word fipple
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Fipple (noun) - (1) The underlip. "See how he hangs his fipple." --John Brockett's Glossary of North Country Words, 1825 (2) The underlip in men and animals, when it hangs down large and loose. "To hang one's fipple," to look disappointed, discontented, or sulky; also, to weep. --John Jamieson's Scottish Etymological Dictionary, 1808
April 22, 2018
knitandpurl commented on the word fipple
"The book's cover features a painting by the nineteenth-century artist Jean Léone Gérôme titled The Snake Charmer. A blue-tiled wall, an audience of armed men, a fipple flute player, and a naked boy whose back is to us. A large, thick snake is coiled around the boy's muscular body."
Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose, p 34
May 19, 2018