BROADCAST WHISTLING

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 10, 23 September 1927, Page 5

BROADCAST WHISTLING

NOVELTY AT 81,0.

$81.0 Melbourne recently conducted fi championship of Australia whistling competition. Hundreds of competitors came from different parts of Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania, and as the standard of their efforts was tyiformly high the task of ‘the = Indges as by no means easy.

An interesting feature of the competition was the fact that many of the competitors were ladies-the second prize heing awarded to Mrs. Daphne Whitehead. The judges, in announcing the awards, said that they were astonished at the general excellence of the efforts of the competitors. So many of tlie whistlers produced, simply by the use of lip and tongue, most beautiful melodies and clever imitations of birds that 84,0 Melbourne should now have a huge soutce from which to draw new