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Description: | Sap whistles are made from short lengths of young pithy wood. The pithy core is removed to form a tube, which is then blocked at one end. The whistle is played by blowing across the top of the open end.
A few items are open at both ends and so these could have been used as small-bore pea shooters.
Other examples have one end chamfered into the shape of a mouthpiece.
These range in length from 4.7 cm to 13.2 cm. All are hand made using hedgerow woods (alder or fruitwoods).
(Museum ref: M.H.1988.7.1-13) | Publisher: | Leicestershire County Council's Museum Service | Subjects: | Hedgerow wood Street Toy Sap Whistle Pea Shooter Toy | Temporal: | 1570-1630 | Source: | Leicestershire Museums | Identifier: | http://museums.leics.gov.uk/collections-... | Go to resource |
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