Many will recognize the slide whistle as the voice of the Clangers, but just listen to Louis Armstrong playing Who’s It to see its musical possibilities. With many claims to fame it features prominently in ‘Swanee- Kazoo’ in Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, and on The Simpsons as Sideshow Bob’s voice before he found his own.
About Acme
Always original.
A five-generation iconic British business, born of two of the truly most recogniseasble sounds in the world. The 1880 Acme Metropolitan, the London “Bobby’s” original and supremely innovative police emergency response whistle, and the Acme Thunderer: the original “Sound of Football” and choice of referees since the 1800’s, from local leagues to the very top echelons of The Beautiful Game, across the planet.
Acme also craft beautifully made whistles and calls for a plethora of musical and theatrical applications, which you’ll’ve heard so many times, in so many places, in so much music, but probably never even realised. No digital samples, real analogue Acme.