fipple

Cross-section of the head of a recorder, indicating the wooden fipple plug (A), a "ducted flue" windway (B), and the "labium" (C) which forms the far edge of the "voicing mouth"

Meaning

Noun

Origin

  • Perhaps related to Icelandic flipi ("lip of a horse")

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