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  2. Whistling - Wikipedia

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    Pucker whistling is the most common form in much Western music. Typically, the tongue tip is lowered, often placed behind the lower teeth, and the pitch altered by varying the position of the tongue. Although varying the degree of pucker will change the pitch of a pucker whistle, expert pucker whistlers will generally only make small variations ...

  3. International Whistlers Convention - Wikipedia

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    The convention was featured in the documentary Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling. The last International Whistlers Convention was held in Louisburg in 2013. In 2016, the Japanese Whistling Confederation started a successor event, the biennial World Whistlers Convention.

  4. Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. How Nutcrackers Became a Classic Symbol of Christmas

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    There are so many enduring symbols of Christmas: the trimmed tree, stockings hung by the chimney with care, and of course, jolly Ol' Saint Nick.But for Ree Drummond, there's one Christmas ...

  6. Pucker Up! This Is Why We Kiss Under the Mistletoe at ... - AOL

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    When did standing under mistletoe become a firm directive to pucker up? As it turns out, mistletoe’s hold over lovers goes back way before the first Hallmark film. In fact, many speculate that ...

  7. Royal Insider Reveals a Secret About Kate Middleton's ... - AOL

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    Each attendee reportedly received a letter from Kate, wherein she wrote about how Christmas is one of her favorite times of the year. “It is a time for celebration and joy, but it also gives us ...

  8. Sibilant - Wikipedia

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    In Tsonga, the whistling effect is weak; the lips are narrowed but also the tongue is retroflex. Tswa may be similar. Tswa may be similar. In Changana, the lips are rounded (protruded), but so is /s/ in the sequence /usu/, so there is evidently some distinct phonetic phenomenon occurring here that has yet to be formally identified and described.

  9. Physics of whistles - Wikipedia

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    Whistling telephone wires, automobile radio antennae, certain automobile front grilles, and smoke stacks are other examples of this tone. At very low Reynolds numbers, the flow around a cylinder is stable, forming two fixed vortices behind it. As the speed increases, the flow, although laminar, becomes unstable, and vortices are shed alternately.