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An offstage whistle audible to the audience in the middle of a performance might also be considered bad luck. Transcendental whistling ( chángxiào 長嘯) was an ancient Chinese Daoist technique of resounding breath yoga, and skillful whistlers supposedly could summon supernatural beings, wild animals, and weather phenomena.
Wikisource has original text related to this article: End Poem (full text) The end credits of the video game Minecraft include a written work by the Irish writer Julian Gough, conventionally called the End Poem, which is the only narrative text in the mostly unstructured sandbox game. Minecraft's creator Markus "Notch" Persson did not have an ending to the game up until a month before launch ...
A trailing edge tone occurs when an exterior flow passes over a trailing edge. There is a whistle that is a combination of an edge tone and a trailing-edge tone and might be called a wake-edge tone. It occurs in rotating circular saws under idling conditions and may be called the circular-saw whistle. Under load conditions, blade vibration ...
The York Factory Whistle Concert will be held early Christmas morning. Don Ryan, as pictured during a practice several years ago, is celebrating his 69th year in performing the one-of-a-kind ...
A boatswain's call, pipe, or bosun's whistle is a pipe or a non-diaphragm type whistle used on naval ships by a boatswain. The pipe consists of a narrow tube (the gun) which directs air over a metal sphere (the buoy) with a hole in the top. The player opens and closes the hand over the hole to change the pitch.
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.
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.
I'm from England and me and my sister whistle all the time. Obviously not wolf whistling (but we might to our friends if they have dressed up for a party or whatever). But I know other girls that whistle too because I am in an orchestra and we always whistle the tunes as we are leaving. I don't think that is considered rude or even abnormal.