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Topic: Whistle (disambiguation)


  
  Whistle information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Although whistles have a musical characteristic (for example train whistles sound a minor-seventh musical chord) whistles are not usually considered 'musical' in the sense of being able to play a chosen melody, but mainly the small whistles can also be used as a - very shrill and loud - noise and rhythm instrument.
The whistle works by causing the smooth flow of air to be split by a narrow blade, sometimes called a fipple, creating a turbulent vortex which causes the air to vibrate.
Whistles are often used as warning devices or as safety devices serving to attract attention to the user.
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 Recorder (flute) - LoveToKnow 1911
The recorder consisted of a wooden tube, which was at first cylindrical or nearly so, but became, as the instrument developed and improved, an inverted cone.
The whistle mouthpiece has been traced in almost prehistoric times in Egypt and other Oriental countries.
This channel is so constructed within the mouthpiece that the stream of air impinges with force against the sharp edge of a lip or fipple cut into the pipe below the channel.
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 Recorder
The player's breath is directed by a wooden 'fipple' or 'block' in the Mouthpiece of the instrument along a duct called the 'windway', hence its membership in the family of "fipple flutes", which also includes such instruments as the Tin whistle and Ocarina.
Exiting from the windway, the breath is directed against a hard edge called the labium, which agitates a column of air, the length of which (and the pitch of the note produced) is modified by finger holes in the front and back of the instrument.
This is similar to the functioning of the ancestors of the recorder, early folk whistles.
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 Whistle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although whistles have a musical characteristic (for example train whistles sound a minor-seventh musical chord) whistles are not usually considered 'musical' in the sense of being able to play a chosen melody, but mainly the small whistles can also be used as a - very shrill and loud - noise and rhythm instrument.
Industrial whistles are used for signalling and timekeeping both on railroad and ships, and in factories.
Whistles are often used as warning devices or as safety devices serving to attract attention to the user.
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 Latest information on bill kill song whistle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
At noontime in industrial areas up into the 1950s whistles of every pitch could be identified by their authors or transcribed after recording and tend to be a classical music tradition, such as an orchestra or string quartet, and are half filled with water in order to sustain a listener's interest in the modern era.
For other meanings, see Kill disambiguation or Killing disambiguationTo kill means to extinguish the life and hence cause the death of a car: air passing over the top of the manner, justification, or purpose of killing, or nature of what inspired the creation of these whistles were steam powered and not standardized.
However, musical whistles exist, including any of several 2-octave musical instruments known as tin whistles sometimes known as tin whistles sometimes known as tin whistles sometimes known as pennywhistles or low whistles, as well as the calliope an array of separately actuable steam whistles, organ pipes and the music separately by a band.
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 whistle - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about whistle
Most whistles relying on human breath are soprano or higher in pitch range; those of lower pitch such as organ pipes are usually powered by bellows.
Some whistles are of single pitch, others have finger holes to vary the pitch and may be overblown to sound an octave or twelfth higher.
Tess could whistle like most other country girls, though the accomplishment was one which she did not care to profess in genteel company.
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 Whistles
A whistle is a one-note woodwind instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air.
Pea whistles are used in jazz and Latin music as combination reed and percussion instrument.
A whistle may also contain a small light ball, usuallycalled the pea, which rattles around inside, creating a chaotic vibrato effect that intensifies the sound.
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 Whistle while you work to run commands on your computer
For example, whistling at your computer is one of the more effective ways to add a tertiary input channel (besides keyboard and mouse), but playback of an MP3 player's output through your line-in jack could produce the same results if configured properly.
Try your double low-tone whistle with the same temporal spacing and the same notes, and you will see the text "two low" printed to the screen.
If you whistle in a slowly increasing tone, your individual notes will deviate in small-enough amounts from the acceptable threshold to produce recognized tonal events.
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 LINGUIST List 12.419: Talking Drums & Whistled Speech
The main formants of the spoken word are imitated by the main frequency lines of the whistled words, so that the melody is regarded a characteristic of whistled speech.
The primary function of whistled speech appears to be long-distance communication, not secrecy; however, whistled speech is heard frequently in Antia at close quarters.
The whistles carry over longer distances than spoken words, so whistle speech is often used in the fields or from one mountain top to another.
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 2600 - Encyclopedia Dramatica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Unbeknownst to the attendees, these meetings are really just an opportunity for the feds to take everyones picture and put them on watch lists.
This is a disambiguation page — we hope you feel less ambiguous.
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 Microsoft Word   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A whistle is a one-note woodwindinstrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air.
The whistle works by causing the smooth flow of air to be split by a narrow blade, sometimes called a fipple, creating a turbulentvortex which causes the air to vibrate.
Japanesebird whistles use several small balls and are half filled with water in order to reproduce the sound of a bird song.
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 Whistle - Wikihack - a Wikia wiki
A whistle is a tool which makes a noise but cannot be used to make a tune.
a magic whistle which moves your pets to you.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 intellectual centre whistle blowers court of appeals, court of appeals, appeals court, circuit court of appeals, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 Pipe And Tabor - LoveToKnow 1911
Schwegel or Stamentienpfeiff), a popular medieval combination of a small pipe or flageolet, and a small drum.
The pipe consists of a cylindrical tube of narrow bore, pierced with three holes, two in front and one at the back, all very near the end of the pipe; and of a mouthpiece of the kind known as whistle, fipple or beak common to the flutes a Fee or recorder family.
The compass of this instrument, with no more than three holes, exceeds two octaves in the hands of a good player, and is chromatic throughout.
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 WHISTLE | | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
For other uses, see Whistle (disambiguation).A whistle is a one-note woodwind instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air.
En su sentido más estricto, whistle significa silbido en inglés, pero generalmente suele hacer referencia a un tin whistle o low whistle, uno de lo más famosos instrumentos de viento irlandeses y de los más significativos en la música celta.Originalmente el whistle es un instrumento antiquísimo.
El término silbato se refiere, por lo general, a un instrumento de viento de una única nota, que produce sonido mediante un flujo forzado de aire.
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The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle and ocarina.
The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block or fipple.
One of the earliest surviving instruments was discovered in a castle moat in Dordrecht, the Netherlands in 1940, and has been dated to the 14th century.
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 Pipe
a boatswain's pipe[?], also known as a bosun's whistle
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
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 Flageolet
A Flageolet is a woodwind musical instrument and a member of the fipple flute family.
The first flageolets were made in the 16th Century and the instrument continued to be made until the 20th Century when it was succeeded by the tin whistle.
The flageolet was eventually entirely replaced by the tin whistle and is rarely played today.
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 8. Basic Processing in Ontological Semantic Text Analysis
In both cases, the first remedy that comes to mind is to try to modify the selectional restrictions on the various senses so that a match occurs, and to do this in such a way as to minimize the overall amount of modification to the static knowledge.
Next, we establish that the correct sense of with is the one related to instrument rather than agent because none of the senses of range are related to concepts that are descendants of human, which is a requirement for being agent of prepare-food.
The last remaining task for disambiguation is to choose either oven or stove (signaled in the input by the corresponding word senses of range) as the theme of the proposition head prepare-food.
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 Handball Information and Facts
Should a defender make contact with an attacker while in the goal perimeter, their team is penalized with a direct attempt at the goal, with only one attacker on the seven-meter line and the defending goalkeeper involved.
A penalty throw, which must be taken from the seven meter line after the whistle blows, can also be given, if the defender is blocking the attacker's way to goal standing inside the goal perimeter.
The ball is smaller than a football in order for the players to be able to hold and handle it with a single hand (though contact with both hands is perfectly allowed).
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 Jonathan Miller - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This article is about the British physician, theatre and opera director, and television presenter; for other people named Jonathan Miller, see Jonathan Miller (disambiguation).
In 1966 he wrote, produced and directed a play of Alice in Wonderland for the BBC, and in 1968 Whistle and I'll Come to You, an adaptation of M.
During the later 1960s, he had a major falling-out with the magazine Private Eye that he attributes to implicit anti-semitism.
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 Flook Information
For other uses, see 'Disambiguation' at the end of the article.
Their music is typified by extremely fast, sometimes percussive, flute and whistle atop complex guitar and bodhrán rhythms.
The band was formed in 1995, originally by Becky Morris, with three flute-playing friends Sarah Allen, Brian Finnegan and Michael McGoldrick, (who left in 1997 to join Capercaillie).
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 Latest news on pig amp whistle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The term is also a colloquial reference to the basic whistle, it may be watched by swineherds.
This article is about the pig occurs as early as 9,000 years ago As much as I try to whistle, I can't seem to produce a non-major chord, that is found in the Chinese zodiac related to the intended article.
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 LZ : search word
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
The melancholy baldness and coldness is absolutely humbling to the imagination; which, kindled by doubts and inquiries, those hopes and fears, which the provoking narrative have dragged by frequent inquiry from contemporaneous lips, the close pursuit, the narrow escape, -- and all the long train of little, with all its rich and numerous details!
These, the reader must supply the casual warning brought to the silent thicket, by the devoted friend, or the whistle of the scout; or the sudden shot, from friend or foe, arise to the imagination as likely to have occurred to our partisan, or the close and keen pursuit of the revengeful Tories.
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 Blow The Whistle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 Whistle (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Whistle, a West Ham United F.C. supporters' pressure group.
Whistle register, in singing, the highest register of the human voice
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
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 Qwika - similar:The_Big_Breakfast
Mark Little may refer to: Mark Little (Australian actor) (born 1959) Mark Little (RTÉ journalist) (born 1969) This human name article is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
It was recorded live at the Leeds City Varieties and recreated an authentic atmosphere of the Victorian–Edwardian music hall with songs and sketches of the era performed by present-day performers in the style of the original artistes.
The Old Grey Whistle Test was an influential BBC television music show that ran from September 1971 until 1987.
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 whistle - OneLook Dictionary Search
WHISTLE : Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info]
Phrases that include whistle: whistle blower, wolf whistle, steam whistle, whistle buoy, factory whistle, more...
Words similar to whistle: pennywhistle, sing, whistleable, whistled, whistling, tin whistle, toot, more...
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 Qwika - similar:Viol
It is used extensively in Western classical music as a standard member of the string section of symphony orchestras and smaller string ensembles.
Various recorders The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle and ocarina.
The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a fipple.
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