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2. Shvi - Wikipedia

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   The shvi (Armenian: շվի, "whistle", pronounced sh-vee) is an Armenian fipple flute with a labium mouth piece. [2] Commonly made of wood (apricot, boxwood, or ebony) or bamboo and up to 18 inches (460 mm) in length, it typically has a range of an octave and a-half. [3]

3. Fipple - Wikipedia

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   Common examples of this are the end-blown ney and the side-blown concert flute. The first attested use of the term fipple is in a comparison between the recorder and the transverse flute by Francis Bacon, published in 1626. [3] Recorders…were it not for the fipple, that straitneth the air…would yeeld no sound. …

4. Tin whistle - Wikipedia

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   Kwela is the only music genre created around the sound of the tin whistle. The low cost of the tin whistle, or jive flute, made it an attractive instrument in the impoverished, apartheid-era townships; the Hohner tin whistle was especially popular in kwela performance. The kwela craze accounted for the sale of more than one million tin whistles.

5. Slide whistle - Wikipedia

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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.

6. List of compositions for flute - Wikipedia

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   Serenade for flute, violin and viola in D major, Op. 25; Trio for piano, flute, and bassoon in G major, WoO 37; Pierre Boulez: …explosante-fixe…, various configurations with flute and other instruments (1971–72, 1973–74, 1985, 1991–93) Le marteau sans maître for contralto voice, alto flute, viola, guitar, xylorimba, vibraphone, and ...

7. Whistle - Wikipedia

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   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.