fipple

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

Noun

fipple (plural fipples)

  1. (music) The block (typically of wood) that forms the floor of the windway in a wind instrument.

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