are you a Whistler ???

[mtyas]

My girlfriend always whistles when she's having a pee.
She can't pee without it, and never whistles at any other time. Strange no !

Otherwise I tried whistling techno, rap or even funk, and it doesn't work very well. That's probably why we whistles slow melodies like classical or crooner style.

[wrench45us]

i have two ranges of whistling
one is high through the front teeth gap -- suitable for bird calls and high strings and piercing through applause in suitable venues

and one is lower through the more traditional mellower pucker method -- the lower range method allows for whistling on the outbreath and the inbreath -- more suitable for slow ballads and the like -- surprisingly accurate pitch when whistling can't trust my voice to find or hold a pitch at all

and then
being a drummer by temperament and training I usually start adding tongue clicks and lip pops holding back before it all degenerates full bore into beatbox

[anoke]

Another whistler here. _o/

Usually I whistle melodies from classicals (Grieg's March of the Trolls, Prokofieff's Peter and the Wolf...) or old musicals (that Fiddler thing for example). My whistling has nothing to do with music I make.


I'm consciously trying to improve (I made myself a new year's resolution) my whistling but I'm not sure how to do that. Sometimes I try to whistle scales. I try to train my ear too, you see.. But whistling scales is a bit frustrating when the technique fails.. I'm near getting a hang on whistling both on inbreath and outbreath.

Today I found myself whistling Take Five, Pink Panther and Mission Impossible. I had never whistled them or any 5/4 before.. I think I had a little groovier day than usually (:


I almost dropped whistling when I heared a friend whistle. She has mastered whistling totally, she silenced a parrot once. They competed and the parrot loose, it was offended for three days

[xoxos]

thank goodnss it wasn't a pissing contest or you'd be shelling out for expensive parrot kidney surgery.

[nukles]

I almost dropped whistling when I heared a friend whistle. She has mastered whistling totally, she silenced a parrot once. They competed and the parrot loose, it was offended for three days

hehe, that would have been entertaining

[mtyas]

But a parrot can whistle lots of notes at the same time.
It's called a Polly-Phonic

[Voidoid Surrealist]

i have two ranges of whistling
one is high through the front teeth gap -- suitable for bird calls and high strings and piercing through applause in suitable venues

and one is lower through the more traditional mellower pucker method -- the lower range method allows for whistling on the outbreath and the inbreath

I hear you on the whole outbreath/inbreath thing, it's like the whistler's form of circular breathing. No need to ever pause for air.
Always wanted to do the screechingly loud "Alex calling his Droogs" toothgap style of whistle but could never do it. Pity, as I love making annoyinly loud noises.

As for regular whistling, I'll mostly do stuff like Bulgarian folk songs, generaly when I'm by myself. Usualy done in the old heavy vibrato style, with sort of a weird toungue action that I can't quite explain, but it sort of gives you the ability to do sort of a warbling grace note sort of a sound. Not to mention the whole half trilled-half-gargled method for making rapid fire series of notes.

All this talk of people whistling makes me think of the killer in M ...