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Slide whistle

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A slide whistle is a hybrid wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it. It thus has an air reed like some woodwinds, but varies the pitch with a slide. Because the air column is open at one end and closed at the other, it overblows the third harmonic.

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