Part I Performers and Performing: 3. Performance Techniques: Whistling.

An encyclopedia entry for whistling is presented. It refers to an oral sound produced by forcing exhaled air through pursed lips between the tongue and the teeth or between fingers inserted in the mouth. In the nineteenth century, whistling was reflected in minstrel and ragtime themes, such as Sam Devere's "Whistling Coon." An example of whistled solos in the 1930s was "Where the Blue of the Night," by Bing Crosby. Some blues singers used whistling.