Title: Mayan Antique Artifact Multiple Tone Blowing Folk Whistle
Shipping: $9.00
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Period: Antiquity
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Condition: Museum Quality
Item Date: Ancient
Item ID: 2917
This is a Ancient artifact fashioned like an animal, made from natural clay, this whistle flute is used during local folk festivities in it's day. The whistle is a traditional folk tool and toy made of pottery. This whistle is in the form of a old world animal, made in brown gray clay. Five Recorder-type holes in the animal's back and it can make a lot of tones. We are offering this fabulous Antique pottery Pocket Whistle. This is a very unique artifact collectible from a long time ago. Pocket whistles were very popular thru out the centuries. The sounding toy not only provides a visual sense of beauty to children, but also excites them with high-pitched sounds. A multiple tone whistle has sound holes on both the left and right sides. It gives out multiple tones when blown and the tones are louder and more pleasant than those of ordinary whistles. These ancient artifact Whistle tools are being discovered scattered and buried throughout the world.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle
A simple whistle is a woodwind instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air. The whistle has its roots dating back to ancient China. Chinese night watchmen used to blow into the tops of acorns in order to alert the towns of invading Mongolians. In ancient Egypt two blades of the papyrus plant along the Nile river were held together in between the palms. By blowing into the palms the papyrus leaves would make a loud vibrant sound. The whistle works by causing the smooth flow of air to be split by a narrow blade, sometimes called a fipple, creating a turbulent vortex which causes the air to vibrate. By attaching a resonant chamber to the basic whistle, it may be tuned to a particular note and made louder. The length of the chamber typically defines the resonance frequency. A whistle may also contain a small light ball, usually called the pea, which rattles around inside, creating a chaotic vibrato effect that intensifies the sound. Japanese bird whistles use several small balls and are half filled with water in order to reproduce the sound of a bird song.
