Talk:Whistle
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Should there be some reference to the saying "clean as a whistle" here? I think it would be appropriate, so here is a link I found on google: http://www.word-detective.com/112897.html
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[edit] number of octaves for a pennywhistle
Though the upper-most register is rarely used (it is quite shrill), pennywhistles have 3 octaves. I've never seen a fingering chart for a fourth octave, though perhaps it would be possible.
[edit] Wind whistles
I was wondering what the name of the wind powered whistles that are used in China are called as I was trying to find out about them.
[edit] Whistles have no reeds....
so how can they be classed as woodwind instruments? Whistles are cavity resonators, and generate sound without a freely vibrating solid surface, as is required for woodwinds (the reed) or brass instruments (the lips).
The pea in a pea whistle isn't part of the sound generation mechanism in the way a woodwind's reed is. In pea whistles the moving pea changes the shape of the resonant chamber, and that causes the characteristic warbling of the sound, but the pea has nothing to do with the generation of the sound. And of course most whistles in use (steam whistles etc) have no freely vibrating components at all.
Flutes also don't have reeds, and they are most definitely woodwind instruments.--220.238.128.244 09:26, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Crowfeathers
Stevie Saint from Wolfstone played a 2-minute whistle solo at the end of "Crowfeathers". —Bill Conrad 15:11, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image
I added one more image and re-arranged previous images because I believe mine to be of higher quality.N734LQ 03:14, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Explosive Whistle
I remember hearing about an exploding whistle in WW2? made by the Germans? The idea was to drop them behind lines and hope some child would blow them. The inside was coated in explosives, and the ball was a friction ball. Never used? I can't seem to find a reference but clearly remember seeing a picture of one. damn that was crazy are Germans that bad? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.18.21.120 (talk) 20:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
