fipple flute

[ fip-uhl ] show ipa. nounMusic. a plug stopping the upper end of a pipe, as a recorder or a whistle, and having a narrow slit through which the player blows.

the part of some musical instruments, such as a recorder or pipe, that the player puts into his or her mouth and blows: The recorder and tin whistle are played by blowing into a fipple. A flute is an instrument played by blowing across a mouth-hole or (as in the recorder) against a sharp edge, or fipple.

Each flute consists of three holes and a fibble. The fibble consists of the shaped whistle and the wind way, and is built from beeswax. This gives the flutes a total of at least 4 clear notes and a variety of intervals, giving the ability to play a wide variety of beautiful pieces.

: a keyed woodwind instrument consisting of a cylindrical tube which is stopped at one end and which has a side hole over which air is blown to produce the tone and having a range from middle C upward for three octaves.

Etymology. The instrument name recorder derives from the Latin recordārī (to call to mind, remember, recollect), by way of Middle French recorder (before 1349; to remember, to learn by heart, repeat, relate, recite, play music) and its derivative recordeur ( c. 1395; one who retells, a minstrel).

With a fipple flute, air is blown into the mouthpiece and is split by a piece of wood, bone, plastic or metal (the fipple) located inside the body, thus being forced out of the tone holes and producing sound.

Flutes are classified into two groups: fipple flutes and transverse flutes. A fipple flute is one held perpendicular to the floor and with the mouthpiece or blow hole at the very end of the instrument. Transverse flutes are held parallel to the floor to one side of the player's body.

fipple flute, also called whistle flute, duct flute, or block flute, any of several end-blown flutes having a plug (“block,” or “fipple”) inside the pipe below the mouth hole, forming a flue, duct, or windway that directs the player's breath alternately above and below the sharp edge of a lateral hole.

piccolo, (Italian: “small flute”) in full flauto piccolo, highest-pitched woodwind instrument of orchestras and military bands. It is a small transverse (horizontally played) flute of conical or cylindrical bore, fitted with Boehm-system keywork and pitched an octave higher than the ordinary concert flute.

Definitions of flute player. someone who plays the flute. synonyms: flautist, flutist. type of: instrumentalist, musician, player. someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)

Almost all primitive cultures had a type of fipple flute and is most likely the first pitched flute-type instrument in existence. A possible Neanderthal fipple flute from Slovenia dates from approx 60,000 B.C. Written sources that describe a fipple-type flute include the Roman and Greek aulos and tibia.

Slide whistle (aka swanee or swannee whistle, piston flute, jazz flute)