penny whistle
Britishnoun
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Opening track "Sat In Your Lap" featured then-Buggles member Geoff Downes contributing robotic horns via the Fairlight, while "Night of the Swallow" boasts Uilleann Pipes and a penny whistle.
From Salon
Arriving in acorn-shaped containers, the spirit’s gifts include the Badger, assembled on the spot from a sock, a cushion and a couple of back scratchers, and the Thrush, whose components are a gourd, a handkerchief and a penny whistle.
From New York Times
Is that a penny whistle I hear?
From Los Angeles Times
The group fell quiet as he produced a penny whistle and played a haunting, ethereal melody followed by Cooley’s Reel, a popular Celtic tune.
From Science Magazine
He taught himself to play the penny whistle, flute and oud and sang in a boy’s school group.
From Washington Post
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