swazzle

It is an inward and sibylline sound of swazzle notes and speaking stones.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Insert your swazzle and repeat after me: "That's the way to do it!" posted by K. A. Laity at

Archive 2006-04-01 K. A. Laity 2006

Insert your swazzle and repeat after me: "That's the way to do it!" posted by K. A. Laity at

New Publication: Puppetry International K. A. Laity 2006

This is kind of facile (and not a little bit peurile), but I used to select the wider blades of grass that I could find, and pinch them between the balls of my hands (paddy part at the bottom of the thumb) and the tips of my thumbs, and when you blow through the resulting gap with the grass blade, it made a very obnoxious, honky kind of sound, in the same general sonic family as listening to Mr. Punch speak through the swazzle.

Make A Willow Whistle | Lifehacker Australia 2009

This is kind of facile (and not a little bit peurile), but I used to select the wider blades of grass that I could find, and pinch them between the balls of my hands (paddy part at the bottom of the thumb) and the tips of my thumbs, and when you blow through the resulting gap with the grass blade, it made a very obnoxious, honky kind of sound, in the same general sonic family as listening to Mr. Punch speak through the swazzle.

Make A Willow Whistle | Lifehacker Australia 2009

Punch’s voice, high pitched and squeaky is produced through the use of a swazzle or squeaker.

Punch and Judy 2006

Punch’s voice, high pitched and squeaky is produced through the use of a swazzle or squeaker.

Archive 2006-09-01 2006