Editing Slide whistle (section)

== Uses ==
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The slide whistle is often thought of as a toy instrument, especially in the West, though it has been and still is used in various forms of "serious" music. Its first appearance in notated [[European classical music]] may have been when [[Maurice Ravel]] called for one in his [[opera]] ''[[L'enfant et les sortilèges]]''.<ref name="Grove" /> More modern uses in classical music include [[Paul Hindemith]]'s Kammermusik No. 1, op. 24 no. 1 (1922), [[Luciano Berio]]'s ''Passaggio'', which uses five, and the [[Violin Concerto (Ligeti)|Violin Concerto]] of [[György Ligeti]], as well as pieces by [[Cornelius Cardew]], [[Alberto Ginastera]], [[Hans Werner Henze]], [[Peter Maxwell Davies]], and [[Krzysztof Penderecki]] (''De Natura Sonoris II'', 1971<ref>Beck (2013), p. 29.</ref>). [[John Cage]]'s ''[[Music of Changes]]'' (1951) and ''Water Music'' (1952) both feature slide whistle and [[duck call]]s.<ref>Iddon, Martin (2013). ''John Cage and David Tudor: Correspondence on Interpretation and Performance'', p. 91. Cambridge University. {{ISBN|9781107310889}}.</ref> The slide whistle is also used in many of the works of [[P. D. Q. Bach]].

In the 1930s through the 1950s it was played with great dexterity by Paul 'Hezzie' Trietsch, one of the founding members of the [[Hoosier Hot Shots]]. They made many recordings.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}}

[[Roger Waters]] played two notes on the slide whistle in the song ''Flaming'', from [[Pink Floyd]]'s debut album ''[[The Piper at the Gates of Dawn]]''.

A more recent appearance of the slide whistle can be heard in the 1979 song "Get Up" by [[Vernon Burch]]. The slide whistle segment of this song was later sampled by [[Deee-Lite]] in their 1990 hit "[[Groove Is in the Heart]]".
[[Fred Schneider]] of [[The B-52's]] plays a plastic toy slide whistle in live performances of the song "[[Party Out of Bounds]]" as a prop for the song's drunken partygoer theme, in place of the [[trumpet]] thus used in the studio for the ''[[Wild Planet]]'' song.

On the popular [[BBC Radio 4]] comedy panel game show "[[I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue]]" the swanee whistle has been paired for comic effect with the [[kazoo]] in a musical round called "Swanee-Kazoo" which has been played for over forty years.