has anyone ever used their whistle for evil?
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has anyone ever used their whistle for evil?
i'm looking for new good ideas for using a whistle for evil. i can get the oil changed in my car and my tires rotated a whole lot faster at the garage if i pull out my whislte while i'm waiting and play a few tunes. i'm not even hitting clunkers or skreechers so i don't know what their problem is. does anyone else do stuff like this?
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uhhhmm
The beagle is not thrilled with my 'virtuosity'. If I persist, especially in the 2nd register she leaves the room....time to pull the milk and oreos out (alone at last!). Mans gotta do what a mans gotta do. Excuse me while i dunk.....
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Precisely. My cat, Sapphire, is on permanent "Feed me now, you idiot" mode. But she hates my high whistles. I think you get the picture. I too (though innocently) pulled at my whistle at a Firestone Tire store at 7 AM, waiting for my car to get an oil change. Come to think of it, it DID happen in record time. And, if you've ever experienced the sound of a Texas circada at the end of summer, well--it's ear splitting. I admit to playing late at night at high volumes in an attempt to drown them out. (Hands down, they won.)
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One of my ferrets, Jesse, reacts to the second octave of the whistle by climbing me like a tree, grabbing the end of the whistle in his teeth, and yanking it away from me.
He then will take it and hide it in his cache-o-stuff.
I sneakily recover the whistle and the saga starts over.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
--James
He then will take it and hide it in his cache-o-stuff.
I sneakily recover the whistle and the saga starts over.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
--James
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At von Huene we had a professional recorder player come by one or more times a week, to spend time breaking in and giving feedback on the tuning and voicing of each new vH recorder being prepared for sale, this is part of the final tuning and voicing process at the shop.
Well, this otherwise very nice individual sometimes has a habit of repetitively tweedling away on any unusally sour high notes he happens to come across. That is to say, rather than just notating the problem and moving on, he will tend to play these notes over and over and over, even though he knows well enough that they aren't going to improve until someone else in the shop takes a knife or file to the instrument.
So, one day, this guy is working my last nerve with his noodling on a high second octave note on a SOPRANO recorder, and I snap: I grab my Abell Eb whistle, which I happened to have in my drawer at work, then I sneak up right behind the guy, and as soon as he takes a breath, I BLAST a series of third octave d notes. Heh heh, you should have seen him jump!
Friggin' recorder players.
Loren
Well, this otherwise very nice individual sometimes has a habit of repetitively tweedling away on any unusally sour high notes he happens to come across. That is to say, rather than just notating the problem and moving on, he will tend to play these notes over and over and over, even though he knows well enough that they aren't going to improve until someone else in the shop takes a knife or file to the instrument.
So, one day, this guy is working my last nerve with his noodling on a high second octave note on a SOPRANO recorder, and I snap: I grab my Abell Eb whistle, which I happened to have in my drawer at work, then I sneak up right behind the guy, and as soon as he takes a breath, I BLAST a series of third octave d notes. Heh heh, you should have seen him jump!
Friggin' recorder players.
Loren
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My dog ingnores me when I use the the whistle as a weapon so to speak.
But it works like a charm on my kids. I can chase them from any room or the house even with the right tune.Ahh what power
But it works like a charm on my kids. I can chase them from any room or the house even with the right tune.Ahh what power
a one anda two anda three. I would like you to meet my whistle instructer Charles.
[A bad day of Whistlin is better than
any day at work!!!]
[A bad day of Whistlin is better than
any day at work!!!]
What is it with ferrets and caches? My old roomie's ferret used to try topeeplj wrote:One of my ferrets, Jesse, reacts to the second octave of the whistle by climbing me like a tree, grabbing the end of the whistle in his teeth, and yanking it away from me.
He then will take it and hide it in his cache-o-stuff.
drag a whole juggling club (twice his size and weight) under the couch.
It was funny to watch. He'd usually get it halfway under before I'd grab
it back. Once we lifted the couch and discovered where our missing
socks had gone.
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I wish I were brave enough to play in public, so that I might get faster service too. Mostly I play whenever I can get some time alone at home. My cats know its me and come running, especially my shy one who is terrified of the kids. He'll make a brave forray from out of the basement with big meows. The problem is that he hates the sound. My poor conflicted kitty, can't decide whether to stay or go.