- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Tin whistle, shaped like a boat. A kazoo. [RR 9/1/2020]
- Geographical reference
- England
- Cultural groups
- European
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1939
- Date collected
- By 1939
- Acquisition information
- Bequeathed: 1939
- Materials and processes
- Material Tin Metal, Process Machine-made
- Dimensions
- Length: max 120 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1938.34.304
- Research and responses
This tin whistle is as likely to have been used in England as in any other part of the British Isles and I have therefore included it in the English ethnography project [AP 25/07/2006]
Search terms: Music, Navigation, Musical Instrument, Voice Disguiser, Flute, Free Reed
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