Sentence examples similar to fipple pipe from inspiring English sources
Flue pipes produce sound by forcing air through a fipple, like that of a recorder, whereas reed pipes produce sound via a beating reed, like that of a clarinet or saxophone.
Pipe and tabor, three-holed fipple, or whistle, flute played along with a small snare drum.
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.
Like the recorder, it is a fipple, or whistle, flute i.e., one sounded by a stream of breath directed through a duct to strike the sharp edge of a hole cut in the side of the pipe.
"Flageolet" sometimes refers generically to any fipple flute.
See also flute; fipple flute; reed instrument.
She said the instrument belongs to a class of woodwinds known as the fipple flute.
Longer, open flutes with the whistle's flue and lateral hole are called fipple, or whistle, flutes.
