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• It is typical, therefore, for the swanee whistle player to take the bulk of the performance.
• The latter, which may be more precisely referred to as the slide or Swanee whistle, is commonly made of plastic or metal.
• The distinctive whistles made by the Clangers, performed on swanee whistles, have become as identifiable as the characters themselves, much imitated by viewers.
• The swanee whistle dates back at least to the 1840s, when it was manufactured by the Distin family and featured in their concerts in England.
• Musical games often involve incongruities such as singing " One Song to the Tune of Another " or playing a song using only a swanee whistle and a kazoo.
• The celebrity instrument players were Antony Cotton on the tubular bells, Carley Stenson on the recorder, Adele Silva on the xylophone and Kelvin Fletcher on the swanee whistle.
• Furthermore, the swanee whistle is not usually considered a melody instrument, more usually being employed for special effects ( such as the voices of the " Clangers " ).
• Typically, the kazoo player can hold the tune, thus keeping the performance together, while the swanee whistle produces a deranged version, often only hitting the right note by accident.
• The earliest pitch pipes were instruments rather like a recorder, but rather than finger holes, they had a plunger like a slide whistle's ( also known as a " swanee whistle " ).
• Possibly the most extensive use of the swanee whistle was the last in the summer 2006 series, where it was used almost exclusively to perform the melody for " Tequila ", the kazoo ( played by Barry Cryer ) being used to supply the " Tequila !"