slide whistle

slide whistle
A wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorders and a tube with a piston in it, the pitch being varied with a slide, commonly used as a sound effect to accompany pratfalls in slapstick.
Syn: jazz flute, piston flute, swanee whistle

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