History Fipple

a pipe , tabor player , double pipe player accompany gymnast in medieval illustration.

fipple flutes have long history: example of iron age specimen, made sheep bone, exists in leeds city museum.

l.e. mccullough notes oldest surviving whistles date 12th century, that, players of feadan mentioned in description of king of ireland s court found in irish law dating 7th , 8th centuries a.d.

the tusculum whistle 14-cm whistle 6 finger holes, made of brass or bronze, found pottery dating 14th , 15th centuries; in collection of museum of scotland.

one of earliest surviving recorders discovered in castle moat in dordrecht, netherlands in 1940, , has been dated 14th century. largely intact, though not playable. second more or less intact 14th century recorder found in latrine in northern germany (in göttingen): other 14th-century examples survive esslingen (germany) , tartu (estonia). there fragment of possible 14th-15th-century bone recorder in rhodes (greece); , there intact 15th-century example elblag (poland).