pennywhistle

NOUN
  1. an inexpensive fipple flute
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How To Use pennywhistle In A Sentence

  • Yeah the pennywhistle is the worst kind of groundling humor. Edmond O'Brien
  • She intently watched their polished movements, sometimes involving switching between instruments - Naomi to the timbrel and Ellen to the oboe, pennywhistle or clarinet.
  • From the opening brass fanfares to the insouciance of the finale, the piece evokes images of mounted guardsmen, band shells in Bath, kids with pennywhistles, and even the elegiac promptings of night.
  • The marquis de Carabas was leaning against the wall, playing the pennywhistle. NEVERWHERE
  • Madelaine Hudson sang and played guitar, accompanied by African drums and pennywhistle, then a group of belly dancers from Orbost got the crowd clapping their hands and stamping their feet.
  • Hymns are accompanied by an ensemble that includes fiddle, acoustic guitar, wind chimes, pennywhistles, a Bodhran, and even bagpipes.
  • Mbaqanga (referring to a type of cornmeal or porridge but generally understood to mean "homemade") was the name given to the type of popular jive music that emerged in the townships of South Africa in the 1960s as a development of the pennywhistle (or kwela) music of the 1950s. PopMatters
  • When the popularity of kwela started to fade, Black Mambazo swapped the pennywhistle for the saxophone.
  • The marquis de Carabas was leaning against the wall, playing the pennywhistle. NEVERWHERE
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