Url
	https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/2925
Resource class
	wmi:MusicalInstrument
Title
	slide whistle
Subject
	421.221.312
Publisher
	Carroll Sound
Contributor
	Roger Vetter
Type
	cosmopolitan (Euro-American)
Format
	12.6 in. length
Identifier
	768
Source
	North America
Language
	EN
Coverage
	United States of America
Alternative Title
	Swanee whistle
	song whistle
	piston flute or pipe
	jazz flute
	flute à coulisse
	Lotosflöte
	flauto a culisse
Extent
	metal
Medium
	metal - sheet
	metal
Requires
	1
Is Part Of
	Mixed Percussion Ensembles
	Grinnell College Music Instrument Collection
Spatial Coverage
	Americas
Provenance
	Grinnell College Music Department
Air cavity design for aerophones
	tubular - cylindrical with closed distal end
Source and direction of airstream
	player exhalation through mouth into air cavity; unidirectional
Energy transducer that activates sound for aerophones
	beveled edge in wall of instrument, indirectly blown against with aid of duct
Means of modifying shape and dimensions of standing wave in air cavity for aerophones
	incremental lengthening with telescoping slide of air cavity in which the standing wave is active
Overblowing utilization in aerophones
	not used
Pitch production in aerophones
	single pitch - one pitch produced in single air cavity
Category of Instrument
	aerophone

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