The music reviewer
was unusually critical about a flute player that I like very much. The review
read, “The sound was similar to a slide whistle”. I gasped because I know a
slide whistle is generally used as an accompanying music instrument to create
just a side effect. I have seen it used in road shows to create awareness of
social issues.
Have you seen a
slide whistle? If not, look at the image of a slide
whistle at wwbw and you will understand the sound from it won’t’ be
anything similar to the sound from a flute though it looks like a flute at the
first glance.
You would be
amused to know that the slide whistle also carries a name, ‘piston flute’. A
bit of digging on this wind instrument revealed that actually, one can produce
some tunes with it though I believe there won’t be any takers. That is why I
thought the music critic was a bit too harsh on my favorite flutist who was
unfortunate to run into this well known music journalist.
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