Whistle Categories and Types

For the beginning and veteran collector, spending the time to understand given names of whistle categories, or types, will help tremendously. Names can change or be clarified and even we have to ‘weed out’ what we have picked up or used over the years. (For example, the name multi-chamber, we are adjusting to multi-tube, as the chambers would be inside the tube.) We have built files over the last two decades by names of types of whistles and have sorted and defined each type. By following this approach, we have added categories till the point of a rather set amount and following this pattern helps for collectors to cross reference including ourselves with our own ‘reference collection’.

Some whistle categories/types are very specific and labeled as such, while others too vast and so grouped for the time being, for example ‘silver’. You might find what seems to be a redundant folder, we do this with the purpose of making it easier to see important sub-categories. For example, India highlights mainly escargots, although escargots is a different folder, and buttons being entirely separate again. It’s been  said, “keeping things simple takes a lot of work!” (Makers themselves are not listed as such on this page, having only 36 files (for now).)

Spotlight Articles for Whistle Categories

Spotlight articles spanning all metal hand whistle collecting is endeavored to be covered. The catch is with only 1 article posting per month, it takes literally years to cover everything – and yet, we are still working at it! (Check back soon: as of November 2021, we’re working on over 40 more articles!) We have written 125+ Spotlight articles featuring specific whistles and grouped categories for the whistle community free of charge!* (To be sure, an Index is now needed and forthcoming!)

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Angled
Thin
Wall
argentina whistle categories
Argentina

asian whistle categories
Asian

asylum whistle categories
Asylum

beaufort conical whistle categoriesBeaufort
(or, Conical)
bell whistle categories
Bell

boatswain bosun whistle categoriesBoatswain
(or, Bosun)
button whistle categoriesButton
Sub class: Escargot
combination whistle categoriesCombination

compass whistle categoriesCompass

corkscrew whistle categoriesCorkscrew

cycling whistle categories
Cycling

dog whistle categoriesDog

escargot whistle categoriesEscargot

extractor whistle categoriesExtractor

fire brigade whistle categoriesFire Brigade


flat whistle categories
Flat


general service gsw whistle categories
General Service
(or, GSW)

india whistle categoriesIndia


king beaufort whistle categoriesKings
Sub class:
Beaufort / Conical
military whistle categoriesMilitary

multichamber multi tube multi-tube whistle categoriesMulti-Tube

pewter whistle categoriesPewter

police whistle categoriesPolice

porteous whistle categoriesPorteous

railway whistle categoriesRailway

round whistle categoriesRound

scout whistle categoriesScout

silver whistle categoriesSilver

siren whistle categoriesSiren

skeleton whistle categoriesSkeleton
Sub class: Escargot
slider whistle categoriesSlider

sports whistle categoriesSports

steel and brass whistle categories
Steel &
Brass
variety whistle categoriesVariety

vesta whistle categoriesVesta
warbler whistle categoriesWarbler