subs. (Scots’).—An organ.

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  1640.  Lesly’s March [Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1812), ii. 11].

        And the KIST-FOU OF WHISTLES,
That mak sic a cleiro.

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  1864.  Letter in Glasgow Herald, 10 Dec. We have had, especially in our city churches, highly trained choirs, and we have now at our doors, clamouring for admission, the KIST O’ WHISTLES, the horror of former generations of Scotchmen.

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  1870.  Orchestra, May. By a majority of seventy-two the English Presbyterian Synod has vindicated the right of congregations to adopt the KIST FU’ O’ WHISTLES in their church services if they be so minded. The fight fought in Regent Square Church recently was hotly contested.

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