However, some flutes, such as the whistle, gemshorn, flageolet, recorder, tin whistle, tonette, fujara, and ocarina have a duct that directs the air onto the edge ( an arrangement that is termed a " fipple ").

The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes — whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle.

Their politically tinged music was informed by MacGowan and Stacy's punk backgrounds, yet used traditional Irish instruments such as the tin whistle, cittern, mandolin and accordion.

The roots of The Pogues were formed when MacGowan ( vocals ), Peter " Spider " Stacy ( tin whistle ), and Jem Finer ( banjo ) were together in an occasional band called The Millwall Chainsaws in the late 1970s after MacGowan and Stacy met in the toilets at a Ramones gig at The Roundhouse in 1977.

* Spider Stacy-vocals, tin whistle

The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, English flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, tin flageolet, Irish whistle feadóg stáin ( or simply feadóg ) and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument.

A tin whistle player is called a tin whistler or whistler.

The tin whistle is closely associated with Celtic music.

The tin whistle in its modern form is from a wider family of fipple flutes which have been seen in many forms and cultures throughout the world.

In Europe such instruments have a long and distinguished history and take various forms ; most widely known of these are the recorder, tin whistle, Flabiol, Txistu and tabor pipe.

The term flageolet is still preferred by some modern tin whistle who feel this better describes the instrument, as this characterises a wide variety of fipple flutes, including penny whistles.

The modern penny whistle is indigenous to the British Isles particularly England when factory-made " tin whistles " were produced by Robert Clarke from ( 1840 – 1882 ) in Manchester and later New Moston, England.

The Clark tin whistle is voiced somewhat on an organ-pipe with a flattened tube forming the lip of the fipple mouthpiece and is usually made from rolled tin sheet or brass.

Clarke whistles were sold for a nominal fee ( a British penny ) and the acquired names of penny and tin whistle have endured to modern times.

The name " tin-whistle " was also coined as early as 1825. but neither tin whistle or penny whistle name seems to have been common until the 20th century.

Since the size and direction of the tin whistle's windway is fixed, like that of the Recorder or fipple flute, it is necessary to increase the velocity of the air stream.

The low cost of the tin whistle, or jive flute, made it an attractive instrument in the impoverished, apartheid-era townships ; the Hohner tin whistle was especially popular in kwela performance.

The tin whistle and flute, can be found in such bands as Cruachan, Waylander and Eluveitie.

The son of a professional violinist, Brant played violin, flute, tin whistle, piano, organ, and percussion at a professional level and was fluent with the playing techniques for all of the standard orchestral instruments.

In addition to composing, he played the violin, flute, tin whistle, percussion, piano, and organ and frequently included soloistic parts in his large works for himself to play.

Live in concert, the band were often compared to local heroes The Fall, despite Davies ' prominent use of tin whistle and flute which clearly betrayed his continued love of Jethro Tull and folk rock.

Unlike the regular pennywhistle, the low whistle is a relative newcomer to Irish traditional music, and some criticise it for attempting to fill a musical role already well served by the tin whistle and Irish flute.

Michael McGoldrick ( b. 1971, Manchester, England ) is an Irish flute and tin whistle player.

Céilidh music may be provided by an assortment of fiddle, flute, tin whistle, accordion, bodhrán, and in more recent times also drums, guitar and electric bass guitar.

Instruments used were kantele, acoustic guitar, double bass, violin, accordion, saxophone, flute, and tin whistle.

The brass Ressikan flute resembles, and has a similar sound to, a penny whistle or a tin whistle.

Kelly playing a tin flute in 2010

* Jerald R. Richards-Clarinet, flute, bass clarinet, ocarina, tin whistle.

Alan began playing concerts at eleven years and studying traditional Breton, English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh folk music, also learning the drum, Irish flute, and tin whistle.

Paddy Moloney, at the age of 20, was called to participate in the project, along with his friend Sean Potts on tin whistle, Sonny Brogan on accordion and John Kelly on flute.

Performers sing and play traditional songs and tunes from the Irish, English and Scottish traditions, using instruments such as the fiddle, accordion, concertina, flute, tin whistle, uilleann pipes, tenor banjo, guitar, and bodhrán.

Their leader Joanie Madden plays flute and tin whistle.

* Frank Orrall-guitar, tin flute, drums, vocals

* Franco D ' Aniello: flute, tin whistle, trumpet, sax, choirs, acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, percussion

* Phil Smillie ( simple system flute, tin whistles, bodhrán, vocals )

* Verity Truman ( vocals, flute, tin whistle ) 1973 – 1990

For the case of an object that is small compared with the radial distance to its axis of rotation, such as a tin can swinging from a long string or a planet orbiting in a circle around the Sun, the angular momentum can be expressed as its linear momentum,, crossed by its position from the origin, r. Thus, the angular momentum L of a particle with respect to some point of origin is

An ancient civilization can be in the Bronze Age either by smelting its own copper and alloying with tin, or by trading for bronze from production areas elsewhere.

This had a mask connected to a tin can containing the absorbent materials by a hose.

Silver, copper, tin and meteoric iron can also be found native, allowing a limited amount of metalworking in early cultures.

They also kept those pesky " tin can tourists " out of the farmer's fields.

Silver can be alloyed with mercury, tin and other metals at room temperature to make amalgams that are widely used for dental fillings.

Since silver can replace tin in solder at a lower volume, a large amount of tin was freed up for other uses by substituting government silver.

However, tin and lead can be smelted by placing the ores in a wood fire, leaving the possibility that the discovery may have occurred by accident.

Lead-tin solder layers on copper leads can form copper-tin intermetallic layers ; the solder alloy is then locally depleted of tin and form a lead-rich layer.

The hollow cartridge was made by tying the sticks of dynamite around a tin can, the open mouth of the latter being placed downward ".

Although Munroe's discovery of the shaped charge was widely publicized in 1900 in Popular Science Monthly, the importance of the tin can " liner " of the hollow charge remained unrecognized for another 44 years.

A children's tin can telephone is one example of a physical dedicated channel.

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.

The notion that a tin foil hat can significantly reduce the intensity of incident radio frequency radiation on the wearer's brain has some scientific validity, as the effect of strong radio waves has been documented for quite some time.

The efficiency of such an enclosure in blocking such radiation depends on the thickness of the tin foil, as dictated by the skin depth, the distance the radiation can propagate in a particular non-ideal conductor.

It also featured " Robby the Robot ", one of the first film robots that was more than just a mechanical " tin can " on legs ; Robby displays a distinct personality and is a complete supporting character in the film.

One method is to start with a sheet of brass shim or metal reclaimed from an aluminium drinks can or tin foil / aluminum foil, use fine sand paper to reduce the thickness of the centre of the material to the minimum, before carefully creating a pinhole with a suitably sized needle.

Lead and tin are commonly used materials, and a simple filter effective above 150 keV can be made using a continuous collar along the length of the tube.

* The superhero / trickster figure of Uncle Sam in Robert Coover's The Public Burning ( 1977, New York, Grove Books ) is described in the following terms ( p. 7 ): " American Autolycus, they called him in the Gospels, referring to his cunning powers of conjuration, transmutation, and magical consumption ( he can play the shell game, not with a mere pea, but with whole tin mines, forests, oil fields, mountain ranges, and just before Thanksgiving this past year made an entire island disappear!

The following metals can be found in the region: zirconium dioxide ( 0. 7 million tons ), titanium dioxide ( 2. 9 million tons ), bauxite ( 2, 068, 000 tons ), and tin ( 588, 000 tons ).

As a proper nominalist, he held that definition and predication are either false or tautological, since we can only say that every individual is what it is, and can give no more than a description of its qualities, e. g. that silver is like tin in colour.