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Slide whistle Diagram of a slide whistle. Sections: 1: mouthpiece, 2: fipple, 3: resonant cavity, 4: slide, 5: pull rod, 6: pipe. A slide whistle (variously known as a swanee or swannee whistle, lotus flute, [1] piston flute, or jazz flute) is a wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it.
A whistle is a device that makes sound from air blown from one end forced through a small opening at the opposite end. They are shaped in a way that allows air to oscillate inside of a chamber in an unstable way. The physical theory of the sound-making process is an example of the application of fluid dynamics or hydrodynamics and aerodynamics ...
A party whistle A metal pea whistle. A whistle is a musical instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means. Whistles vary in size from a small slide whistle or nose flute type to a large multi-piped church organ.
Mouthpiece of a Catalan recorder. The term fipple specifies a variety of end-blown flute that includes the flageolet, recorder, and tin whistle.The Hornbostel–Sachs system for classifying musical instruments places this group under the heading "Flutes with duct or duct flutes."
The hand flute, or handflute, is a musical instrument made out of the player's hands. 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.
While it is used to imitate sounds wild animals make, it can produce sustained sound, a sharp, high-pitched whistle. [1] [2] Players can control the pitch and make songs, normally solo, but sometimes with other instruments. [1] [3]
The willow flute, also known as sallow flute (Norwegian: seljefløyte, Swedish: sälgflöjt or sälgpipa, Finnish: pitkähuilu or pajupilli, Latvian: kārkla stabule, Lithuanian: švilpynė), is a Nordic folk flute, or whistle, [1] consisting of a simple tube with a transverse fipple mouthpiece and no finger holes. The mouthpiece is typically ...
Another contemporary reference to the "echo flute" is in Etienne Loulié's Elements ou principes de musique (Amsterdam, 1696): Les sons de deux flutes d'echo sont differents, parce que l'un est fort, & que l'autre est foible (The sounds of two echo flutes are different, because one is strong and the other is weak). Loulié is unclear on why one ...