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Definition of Fipple
1. Noun. A wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder).
Definition of Fipple
1. n. A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.
Definition of Fipple
1. Noun. (music) The block (typically of wood) that forms the floor of the windway in a wind instrument. ¹
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Definition of Fipple
1. a plug of wood at the mouth of certain wind instruments [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fipple
Literary usage of Fipple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"fipple, t. A stopper, se. of a wind instrument. L. Fibula, a clasp or fastener.
FIR, ». A tree ! the wood of the tree. Sw. Fera-lrae : AS Fuhr-v>udu ..."
2. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"fipple—The underlip ; when dull about any thing, we are said to •' Aing the lip ;"
and when those around us wish us roused, they say we would answer well ..."
3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"They are not in the same key as the orchestral piccolo, but, like it, they were
fipple flutes. Thrice the flauta piccolo furnishes a florid accompaniment to ..."
4. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop (1892)
"fipple, the under lip, a pet lip, a wry face. "What a fipple! ... become naturally
longer on the outside than the inside, which is called their fipple. ..."
5. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"The fipple was a block of wood inserted within the end of the pipe, at once
narrowing the bore of the tube to the dimensions proper for the entrance of the ..."
6. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"fipple Flute. FLUTE-a-bec. Firework Music. George Fred- erick Handel's music in
celebration of the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, per- posed symphonies and much ..."
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