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Definition of Flue pipe
1. Noun. Organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flue Pipe
Literary usage of Flue pipe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... and from this horizontal chamber there is a vertical flue pipe at the back,
leading to the chimney, so that the products of combustion in this, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"With an iron flue pipe from a stove, almost the whole heal which any fuel is
capable of developing may be utilized by using a sufficiently long pipe, ..."
3. The Musical World (1860)
"And in this last case the pipe will no longer sing as an open flue pipe with a
full chest voice, so to say, but will make use of a sort of ventriloquism, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
"A flue-pipe may be of metal or wood ; the part resting on the pipe-rack is tins
foot, which is divided from the body by an aperture in front called ..."
5. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
"A flue-pipe may be of metal or wood ; the part resting on the pipe-rack is the foot,
... A reed-pipe has a boot (corresponding to the foot of a flue-pipe), ..."
6. The Organ and Its Construction: A Systematic Hand-book for Organists, Organ by Johann Julius Seidel (1852)
"Thus, a stopped flue-pipe of a given length, and an open flue-pipe of twice that
length, will produce the same tone. The stopping of pipes is a very ..."
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