Crossword clues for pennywhistle
Wiktionary
alt. A six-holed flute-like instrument with a fipple. They have approximately a two octave range (sometimes a little higher). Stereotypically, they are made out of tin, but in reality they come in all sorts of varieties, including tin, brass, nickel, cane, polymer, etc. n. A six-holed flute-like instrument with a fipple. They have approximately a two octave range (sometimes a little higher). Stereotypically, they are made out of tin, but in reality they come in all sorts of varieties, including tin, brass, nickel, cane, polymer, etc.
WordNet
n. an inexpensive fipple flute [syn: tin whistle, whistle]
Wikipedia
"Pennywhistle" is the second track on Watch Me Disappear, the fourth studio album by Australian rock band Augie March. The song, which was written by Glenn Richards, was released digitally on 16 September 2008, with the hard copy released in Australia on 27 September 2008.
It peaked at No. 37 on the ARIA Top 100 Physical Singles Chart. Scott Podmore of The Herald Sun reviewed Watch Me Disappear and found that "Pennywhistle" was an "escape into the musical gaiety."
Kathy McCabe of The Daily Telegraph felt that "the band are determined to make a star out of the instrument", the pennywhistle. She reported that Richards was inspired to write the song by a Celtic whistle sample, while Edmondo Ammendola added "God forbid we change the pennywhistle for a recorder or a bassoon; there will be outrage."
Usage examples of "pennywhistle".
I would never have dreamed that anyone would ever have recorded pennywhistle music.
I forbore the pennywhistle and instead told the story that I had prepared and had intended to tell.
Then he flexed his fingers, put the pennywhistle to his lips, and began to play an odd, rollicking tune that leapt and twisted and sang.
I let him drag-waltz me, step-step, step-step, frogs and cicadas chorusing like bullroarers and pennywhistles.
Vagabond-musicians played raucous airs on shawms and pennywhistles, Vagabond-actors performed a comedy in zargon, stray dogs copulated in the family chapel, and Jack, presiding over all at the head of the table, dressed in the rich man’s satin, almost fell asleep.
Reminiscing about pennywhistles and pints of Guiness won't help get the business moving the way I want it to move.
He suggested pennywhistles as well, quite innocently, but I pointed out I was trying to win my way in, not provoke Molly to murder me.
With his pocket money he bought tawdry musical instruments, everything from pennywhistles to a cheap violin sold him by a sailor.
There were joke dolls, a row of flutes and pennywhistles lined up next to each other, made of wood, plastic, reed, and steel.
Just the freedom to speak and write, and up at Rock City I play my pennywhistle and meditate.