The slide whistle, and its bigger (arguably classier) sibling, the trombone, are gnomish instruments. I wanted to go with the basic form of the instrument, the most gnomish, so I defaulted to the slide whistle. It's impossible to even think of a slide whistle without that annoying, lilting sound of it coming to mind. Just in case you need some kind of ghastly, tooth-gnashingly grating reminder of it, here's a gnomish woman playing it (be sure to see her drop into a gnomish falsetto at the end of this piece, no doubt compelled by the playing of the slide whistle)...
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