flue pipe

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flue pipe - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Flue pipe \Flue pipe\ (Music)
     A pipe, esp. an organ pipe, whose tone is produced by the
     impinging of a current of air upon an edge, or lip, causing a
     wave motion in the air within; a mouth pipe; -- distinguished
     from reed pipe. Flue pipes are either open or closed
     (stopped at the distant end). The flute and flageolet are
     open pipes; a bottle acts as a closed pipe when one blows
     across the neck. The organ has both open and closed flue
     pipes, those of metal being usually round in section, and
     those of wood triangular or square.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

flue pipe - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  flue pipe
      n 1: organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the
           sharp edge of a fissure or lip [syn: flue pipe, flue,
           labial pipe]