: I am neither a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, yet I will venture to predict that in five years we shall make the journey hence to Quebec and Montreal, and home through Portland and St. John, by rail ; and I believe that many in this room will live to hear the whistle of the steam engine in the passes of the Rocky Mountains, and to make the journey from Halifax to the Pacific in five or six days.

: Solo competitions shall be held for the following instruments: fiddle ; two-row accordion ; concert flute ; whistle ; piano accordion ; concertina ; uilleann pipes ; harp ; mouth organ ; banjo ; mandolin-excluding banjo-mandolin ; piano ; old-style melodeon ; bodhrán ; war pipes ; miscellaneous such as three and five row button accordion, piccolo, harmonica and other stringed instruments ; céilí band drums ; accompaniment – confined to piano, harp, guitar and bouzouki-type instruments ; solo traditional singing in Irish and English ; whistling ; lilting ; newly composed ballads and amhráin nua-cheaptha ( newly composed songs in Irish ).

: Solo competitions for slow airs shall be held in all age groups for the following instruments: ( a ) fiddle ; ( b ) concert flute ; ( c ) whistle ; ( d ) uilleann pipes ; and ( e ) harp ( as of 2010 ).

:( c ) Nothing in these Rules shall interfere with the operation of any special rule made by the government of any State with respect to additional station or signal lights, shapes or whistle signals for ships of war and vessels proceeding under convoy, or with respect to additional station or signal lights or shapes for fishing vessels engaged in fishing as a fleet.

These additional station or signal lights, shapes or whistle signals shall, so far as possible, be such that they cannot be mistaken for any light, shape, or signal authorised elsewhere under these Rules

This is why a police whistle, a form of flute, is very wide for its pitch, and why a pipe organ can be far louder than a concert flute: a large organ pipe can contain several cubic feet of air, and its tone hole may be several inches wide, while a concert flute's air stream measures a fraction of an inch across.

As with the petition, the more people who get involved, the more powerful the message to governments: “ We are no longer willing to accept the fact that hundreds of millions live in chronic hunger .” Groups and individuals can also decide on their own to organize an event about the project, simply by gathering friends, whistles, t-shirts and banners ( whistles and t-shirts can be ordered, and petition sign sheets downloaded, on the endinghunger. org website ) and thereby alert people about chronic hunger by using the yellow whistle.

Anti-SLAPP ( strategic lawsuit against public participation ) laws can be applied in an attempt to curb alleged abuses of the legal system by individuals or corporations who utilize the courts as a weapon to retaliate against whistle blowers, victims, or to silence another's speech.

This is why a dog whistle can be heard by a dog.

If the signals are close but not exactly on the same frequency the mix will not only include the audio from both carriers but depending on the carrier separation a whistle might be heard as well representing the difference in the carrier frequencies.

The resulting overlap forms the high pitched whistle ( about 10 Kilohertz ) that can often be heard behind an AM station at night when other carriers from adjacent channels are traveling long distances due to atmospheric bounce.

Joshua C. Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts patented the calliope on October 9, 1855, although it is based on previously known concepts, as in 1832, a musical instrument designer made a " steam trumpet " later to be known as a train whistle.

Like many old whistles, they had lead fipple plugs, and since lead is poisonous, caution should be exercised before playing an old whistle.

The whistle is tuned diatonically, which allows it to be used to easily play music in two major keys and their corresponding minor keys and modes.

Some whistle designs allow a single fipple, or mouthpiece, to be used on differently keyed bodies.

For a D whistle, this includes notes from the second D above middle C to the fourth D above middle C. It is possible to make sounds above this range, by blowing with sufficient force, but, in most musical contexts, the result will be loud and out of tune due to a cylindrical bore.

On most tin whistles the leading tone to the lowest tonic can be played by using the little finger of the lower hand to partially cover the very end opening of the whistle, while keeping all other holes covered as usual for the tonic.

Thus a D whistle is fairly apt for playing both G and A, and a C instrument can be used fairly easily for F and G.

While the tin whistle is very common in Irish music to the point that it could be called characteristic of the genre and fairly common in Scottish music, it is not a " required " instrument in either one.

The tin whistle is used in many other types of music, though not to the extent that it could be called characteristic as with Irish music and kwela.

The tin whistle is not a transposing instrument-for example, music for the D tin whistle is written in concert pitch, not transposed down a tone as would be normal for transposing instruments.

Nevertheless, there is no real consensus on how tin whistle music should be written, or on how reading music onto the whistle should be taught.

However, when music is scored for a soprano whistle it will be written an octave lower than it sounds, so avoiding use of ledger lines and making it much easier to read.

His whistle playing can be heard on recordings with Loose Tubes, Django Bates and his album with Chris Batchelor Life As We Know It.

It wasn't until the celebratory banquet that evening that Hurst realised he had scored a hat-trick, assuming that the final whistle had been blown before he'd struck the ball into the net for his third goal.

This building was dismantled in 1980, but beginning in 2002 the Monterey Bay Aquarium has blown the original Hovden cannery steam whistle at noon each day to commemorate it.

If either of these time periods expires, the whistle is blown, and the opposing team is given possession.

The ethnic makeup of the town has most likely been affected by the fact that it is a former " sundown town ", where non-White families were forced out after sunset ; a whistle was blown at 6 p. m. daily alerting Native Americans to leave by sundown.

Before signalling the departure, a whistle is blown by the Guard at least couple minutes before, as a warning to the passengers to quickly board the train.

He beat Italian goalkeeping legend Dino Zoff from two direct free-kicks, the first being ruled out because the referee had not blown his whistle.

One of football's most famous photographs shows the elation on the England bench as the final whistle was blown, except for Greaves, in his suit and tie, looking astonished at what had happened.

He had a whistle glued into his body that could be blown into.

It has a hollow handle which can be blown through the mug like a whistle.

Roche was fined accordingly, but a bungle on the part of the EEC allowed the company to discover that it was Adams who had blown the whistle.

Ferrier was also condemned by Business Day for his " silent hand-wringing ", when he should have immediately blown the whistle.

These 30 minutes periods are running time ( may be stop-clock after goals in USA rules ), except for the last two minutes, during which time stops when the whistle is blown.

While the whistle is blown, players must stand in place.

The players ’ sticks around the circle cannot break the line until the whistle is blown.

A good example of his fierce temper was a 12 September 2007 qualifying match for Euro 2008 against Serbia when, at the end of the game, and after the referee had blown the whistle for a 1-1 draw, Scolari threw a left hook at Serbian player Ivica Dragutinović's face that ended up grazing his cheek.

Offaly's players and supporters launch a sit-down protest on the pitch due to the fact that they were losing when the whistle was blown early.

Bates was the first person to congratulate McMenemy and the players as the final whistle was blown at Wembley.

Carragher, who had been brought on as a substitute for Aaron Lennon late in he game, scored with his first attempt but was forced to re-take his penalty by the referee, who had not blown his whistle.

The town of Gardnerville, Nevada, is said to have blown a whistle at 6 p. m. daily alerting Native Americans to leave by sundown.

The signalman had not been alerted by this, probably because driving rain was being blown against the windows of the signalbox, making it hard to hear sounds outside, and because other engines were moving around the station and yard at the same time, so that the signalman would not have attached any particular significance to a train whistle.

Having been brought off the bench in the 85th minute of the play off final against Burnley at Wembley he was subsequently sent off after the final whistle had blown for directing foul language at referee Mike Dean.

Once the whistle is blown the play is over and the receiving team takes possession at the spot the ball was spotted by the official.

Blow of the whistle or horn – Shooters engage the pins until they have cleared their pins or the whistle or horn is blown a second time.