Flute players = flautists, tin whistlers = ?

[cmp260]

If flute players are flautists, why don’t tin whistlers have a term?
According to the dictionary, a whistler is someone whistling with their mouth, not an instrument.

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[mutepointe]

My wife has a word for folks who play the tin whistle. And it's not pennywhistlers.

[maki]

I just say whistler.

[Feadoggie]

Place your suggestions here.

Flageoletist!

I don't care what they call me as long as they don't call me late for supper.

Welcome to the neighborhood.

Feadoggie

[MTGuru]

Flageoletist!

Wouldn't that be "flageoleur"? Or maybe that's someone who eats beans.

[an seanduine]

That's 'flatulist'! His nickname was Le Pétomane.

Bob

[Feadoggie]

Wouldn't that be "flageoleur"?

Nope, I seen it in a dictshunary once, don't ya know.

And it has nothing to do with Opus Dei either.

Or maybe that's someone who eats beans.

Mongo like!

Feadoggie

[Tommy]

Place your suggestions here.

Fipple Flautist

[pancelticpiper]

If flute players are flautists

Not so much.

Nancy Toff says in The Flute Book:

"Once a week I'm asked whether I'm a flutist or a flautist. My answer is a vehement "flutist!"

People may call me a fluteplayer, or a fluter, but please don't call me a flautist (consider the negative connotation: the verb flaut means to jeer or mock).

Since the English 'flute' is obviously related to the French, it follows that the player would be 'flutist' (the term, in English, dates to 1603).

'Flautist' did not appear until 1860 when Nathaniel Hawthorne used it in The Marble Faun."

In short, 'flautist' was invented for a poem.

Flute, fluteplayer; whistle, whistleplayer.
Flute, fluter; whistle, whistler.

"Whistler" has been around for centuries. Why reinvent the wheel?

[OBrien]

How about "feadogger" or "feadogist", based on the Irish word for whistle? I think it makes sense, because "flautist" is based on the French word for flute. Or then again, maybe not. It does lend itself to other terms though: feadogism, feadogology, feadogaphobia.

[Mr Ed]

Whistlist.

[Nanohedron]

...the verb flaut means to jeer or mock).

Sigh. Someone has to be the damn pedant around here, so it falls on me. It's spelled "flout", and in our time it means to defy, refuse to comply, treat with disdain. Of course it implies contempt, but one doesn't flout a person; one flouts convention, rules, fashion, desires, common sense. Like that. It's much more than just merely making fun of something; it's contravening behavior or opinion.

[StevieJ]

...the verb flaut means to jeer or mock).

Sigh. Someone has to be the damn pedant around here, so it falls on me. It's spelled "flout", and in our time it means to defy, refuse to comply, treat with disdain. Of course it implies contempt, but one doesn't flout a person; one flouts convention, rules, fashion, desires, common sense. Like that. It's much more than just merely making fun of something; it's contravening behavior or opinion.

Pedantry is just an excuse to flaunt your knowledge.

[accordionstu]

I agree with some on here I have always referred to myself as a Fluter, never a flutist or flautist and have always called those who have a love of shrill dog whistles, weak arms and small hands "whistlers".

[Nanohedron]

...the verb flaut means to jeer or mock).

Sigh. Someone has to be the damn pedant around here, so it falls on me. It's spelled "flout", and in our time it means to defy, refuse to comply, treat with disdain. Of course it implies contempt, but one doesn't flout a person; one flouts convention, rules, fashion, desires, common sense. Like that. It's much more than just merely making fun of something; it's contravening behavior or opinion.

Pedantry is just an excuse to flaunt your knowledge.

Ha. I see what you did there. Points to those who get StevieJ's veiled admonition.