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Finger whistling is harder to control but achieves a piercing volume. In Boito's opera Mefistofele the title character uses it to express his defiance of the Almighty. Whistling can also be produced by blowing air through enclosed, cupped hands or through an external instrument , such as a whistle or even a blade of grass or leaf.
Different whistling styles may be used in a single language. Sochiapam Chinantec has three different words for whistle-speech: sie 3 for whistling with the tongue against the alveolar ridge, jui̵ 32 for bilabial whistling, and juo 2 for finger-in-the-mouth whistling. These are used for communication over varying distances.
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It is also called a hand ocarina or hand whistle. To produce sound, the player creates a chamber of air with their hands, into which they blow air via an opening at the thumbs. To produce sound, the player creates a chamber of air with their hands, into which they blow air via an opening at the thumbs.
The common "whistle" term hūshào (for which hū can be written 呼 "exhale; shout", 忽 "disdainful; sudden", or 唿 "sad") refers to a type of shrill, forceful finger whistling that is often mentioned in traditional Chinese short stories and novels of the Ming and Qing periods as a kind of remote signaling or calling. [13]
Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling is a documentary film on the 31st International Whistlers Convention that follows a Washington D.C. investment banker, a Dutch social worker and a turkey hauler among others as they compete for a prize in competitive whistling.
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