English edit

 
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"

Etymology edit

Perhaps related to Icelandic flipi (lip of a horse)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fipple (plural fipples)

  1. (music) The mouthpiece of a ducted flute, or the plug forming the floor of the windway.

Further reading edit