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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.
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. There are two common techniques involving the shape of the hand chamber: the "cupped hand" technique and the "interlock" technique. [1]
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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UPDATE: The conflation of wolf-whistling with finger-whistling has now been cured, with the possible exception of one now-cn-tagged statement which may be a product of that confusion. Having now read the available sources carefully, I see that my disparagement of them above was unjust, and I hereby retract it.
Fingersmith may refer to: . Fingersmith (slang), slang for a midwife or pickpocket Fingersmith, a 2002 crime fiction novel by Sarah Waters . Fingersmith, a 2005 BBC mini-series based on the novel
The Ring Finger (French: L'Annulaire) is a French film released on 8 June 2005. It was written (based on a novel by Yōko Ogawa ) and directed by Diane Bertrand . [ 1 ]