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The document discusses how jet whistles are produced on the flute by placing the embouchure hole between the lips and blowing directly into the instrument, and that the pitch depends on factors like mouthpiece position and vowels used, with fingerings differentiating between higher and lower pitches.

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Jet Whistle

The document discusses how jet whistles are produced on the flute by placing the embouchure hole between the lips and blowing directly into the instrument, and that the pitch depends on factors like mouthpiece position and vowels used, with fingerings differentiating between higher and lower pitches.

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Jet whistles

According to Robert Dick (1975), “Jet whistles are produced by placing the embouchure hole
between the lips-pressing the lips against the embouchure plate, so that no air escapes- and
blowing directly into the ute.” 1 The sound produced is airy-breathy and the pitch depends on
the position of the mouthpiece and vowels used. Robert Dick describes four di erent parameters
which a ects the result of sound and the volume, pitch and timbre of the heat whistles. To
compare those parameters with the Interpretation reality, we have rst to examine and de ne the
mentioned above perspectives. Concerning the angle of the utist’s embouchure hole, we can
examine if the player turned the ute out as fast as possible or if the ute have the maximum
inside angle, facing the utist. Dick claims that the pitch of jet whistle could fall an octave.2 Vowels
are very important and gives to the jet whistle a more precise sound and pitch. Fingerings
di erentiate between higher and lower pitches, where the composer asks. Loudness of jet whistle
could be a ected by the breath pressure. Interpreting a long jet whistle depends on the pressure
and loudness. A jet whistle could last from two to twenty seconds, but a longer jet whistle it is
only possible to be played in a dynamic like ppp to p. Stronger jet whistles usually last for about
one two seconds. Jet whistles combined also with various articulations.

*neutral perspective of writing

1Robert Dick, The other Flute. A performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques, Oxford
University Press 1975, p.133
2 Jet whistle p.134
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The importance of understanding the basic characteristics of 18th century music and the
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