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Tin whistle   /tɪn wˈɪsəl/   Listen
Tin whistle

noun
1.
An inexpensive fipple flute.  Synonyms: pennywhistle, whistle.






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"Tin whistle" Quotes from Famous Books



... lost to memory for years—an hour ago I found a musty package of gilt paper, or rather, a roll it was, with the green-tarnished gold of the old sheet for the outer wrapper. I picked it up mechanically to toss it into some obscure corner, when, carelessly lifting it by one end, a child's tin whistle dropped therefrom and fell tinkling on the attic floor. It lies before me on my writing table now—and so, too, does the roll entire, though now a roll no longer,—for my eager fingers have unrolled the gilded covering, and all its precious ...
— Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury • James Whitcomb Riley



Words linked to "Tin whistle" :   fipple flute, fipple pipe, recorder, vertical flute



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