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Whistling, without the use of an artificial whistle, is achieved by creating a small opening with one's lips, usually after applying moisture (licking one's lips or placing water upon them) and then blowing or sucking air through the space. The air is moderated by the lips, curled tongue, teeth or fingers (placed over the mouth or in various areas between pursed lips) to create turbulence, and the curled tongue acts as a resonant chamber to enhance the resulting sound by acting as a type of Helmholtz resonator. By moving the various parts of the lips, fingers, tongue, and epiglottis, one can then manipulate the types of whistles produced.
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- Whistling la donna a mobile by Stanislav Kozlovskiy – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · El Zamorano, San Antonio de Oriente, Departamento de… by Oliver Komar – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Malabar whistling thrush song recorded in August 2001 at Castle Rock, Karnataka by Sharadapte – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Lesser whistling duck from Kerala 01 by Ganesh Mohan T – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Malabar Whistling-thrush mawt Record-024 by T. R. Shankar Raman – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q864184 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Whistling – CC BY-SA 4.0
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