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Whistle (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ439652 ↗
Source-derived summary

A whistle is a single-note woodwind instrument, in the percussion section of the orchestra, and with many other applications in sport and other fields.

Whistle may also refer to:

Music

Whistle (band), a 1980s hip-hop band

Songs

"Whistle" (Blackpink song), 2016

"Whistle" (Flo Rida song), 2012

"Whistle" (Jax Jones and Calum Scott song), 2023

"Whistle" (Kylie Minogue and múm song), 2013

"Whistle (While You Work It)", a 2015 song by British recording artist Katy Tiz

"Whistle (North Korean song)", a 1990 song released by Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble.

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“Whistle (disambiguation)” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Whistle, disambiguation and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2012, 2023, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Whistle, disambiguation and Wikimedia.
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This entry incorporates text from “Whistle (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.