Can you whistle without a whistle?

Rosee · Post by **Rosee** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:56 am

I can do the cupped hands whistle, but never figured out how you move your hands to make different notes.

I also like the blade of grass one but usually spend more time looking for the right blade of grass than I do whistling.

You can also make a high-pitched, obnoxious sound by blowing directly onto the end of a fingernail.

Henkersbraut · Post by **Henkersbraut** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:57 pm

caniadafallon wrote:I can also cup my hands and put my thumbs together and blow to make a cool hooting kind of whistle.

I've managed that once, and scared myself so badly I managed to kick the table and spill coffee all over it

I have a bad habit of always whistling along any whistle (in extreme cases also fiddle) part of the music when I'm at a concert. Thank god it's normally loud enough there so that the others won't hear me, but I did catch the singer of a certain band do the same on Saturday.

No E · Post by **No E** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:05 pm

"You know how to whistle, don't you? Just pucker up and blow."

Vivian Sternwood Rutledge (Lauren Bacall) to Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) in "The Big Sleep" (Howard Hawks, 1946)

No E

caniadafallon · Post by **caniadafallon** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 7:02 am

One of the best movie lines, ever.

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 10:40 am

I have never been able to whistle. I've had numerous people try to teach me, and it just doesn't work. My daughter, on the other hand, has been able to whistle tunefully since she was about five or so (but she can't play the whistle!). Go figure!

Redwolf

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 5:43 pm

I can whistle a lot of tunes right off once I have listened to them a few times. But when I take my whistle to play the same tune I can not get it right. Does anyone else have this problem?

Ron