fipple flute

American

noun

Music.

a recorder or other flutelike instrument equipped with a fipple.

fipple flute British

noun

an end-blown flute provided with a fipple, such as the recorder or flageolet

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Origin of fipple flute

First recorded in 1910–15

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fipple flute

Musicians sat in the corner: a jar-drum, a tambourine, trumpets, and a fipple flute.

From Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine) by Karl Friedrich May

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