The flageolet is a woodwind instrument and a member of the fipple flute family. This is very important to tone production on any fipple flute. Amongst the finds was a fipple flute, a type of early recorder. The fife, however, is a transverse (side-blown) flute, whereas the pipe is a fipple flute. The shvi (, "whistle", pronounced "sh-vee") is a fipple flute with a labium mouth piece.