whistling

several methods of producing sustained sound in the human mouth without necessarily using the vocal cords
Thing music_performance_technique Q864184
whistling
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whistling

Summary

whistling is a music performance technique[1]. whistling draws 224 Wikipedia views per month (music_performance_technique category, ranking #4 of 37).[2]

Key Facts

  • whistling's video is recorded as Occitan whistle-petit.ogv[3].
  • whistling's image is recorded as Whistling in Dixie (1942) 1.jpg[4].
  • whistling's instance of is recorded as music performance technique[5].
  • whistling's instance of is recorded as human activity[6].
  • whistling's audio is recorded as Whistling la donna a mobile.ogg[7].
  • whistling's GND ID is recorded as 4357707-6[8].
  • whistling's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85146453[9].
  • whistling's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 170899682[10].
  • whistling's subclass of is recorded as sound[11].
  • whistling's subclass of is recorded as aerophone[12].
  • whistling's subclass of is recorded as body percussion[13].
  • whistling's Commons category is recorded as Whistling[14].
  • whistling's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 72849[15].
  • whistling's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01w250[16].
  • whistling's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Whistling[17].
  • whistling's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 783.98[18].
  • whistling's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 782.98[19].
  • whistling's Library of Congress Classification is recorded as MT949.5[20].
  • whistling's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0151836[21].
  • whistling's BBC Things ID is recorded as bfb2f856-955e-470f-9c9d-f48240f10674[22].
  • whistling's FAST ID is recorded as 1174594[23].
  • whistling's YSO ID is recorded as 30126[24].
  • whistling's practiced by is recorded as whistle artist[25].
  • whistling's Quora topic ID is recorded as Whistling[26].
  • whistling's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19645736[27].

Why It Matters

whistling draws 224 Wikipedia views per month (music_performance_technique category, ranking #4 of 37).[2] whistling has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] whistling is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . BnF authorities. Retrieved . catalogue.bnf.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20d ago · Jerimee · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of sound, aerophone, body percussion
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    Practiced by whistle artist
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