Please note that the webpage cited has an update stamp of December 1998. I have been making these whistles since August of 1994. Sorry, there are no models for sale, but feel free to make your own.
And this is my last comment on this weekend. Good riddance to it. I count at least four people that have decided to leave as a result of these events, and it makes me very sad. This is not what C&F is about.
Ah, so you claim you made those, eh? I for one doubt it very much. How do we know they’re really yours?
Seriously, though, as to those four leaving C&F, there’s no way in the world YOU can be blamed for that, any more than the folks in the world trade center can be blamed for what happened on 9/11.
I do a lot of the mouth-only whistling as described in your link - I think I do tongue down, though I’ve never analysed it that closely. My model has a range very close to a D Soprano “tube” whistle, so it’s easy for me to whistle along to CD tracks. I don’t know if this is usual, or particular to my larynx/lungs/mouth/lips setup.
A few years back I also managed to perfect the (Red)wolf-whistle, usign two pairs of fingers in the mouth for a piercing blast. I use this whenever I see builders displaying their barses*.
However, like Bilbo Baggins, I’ve never been able to get a good owl hoot perfected. Your link is thus much appreciated.
cheers, Martin
Barse (noun): the part of the lower back between the t-shirt and the low-slung trouser, that builders (in Britain at least) seem to always put on public display. It features a centre parting and generally an ape-like quantity of hair.
[ This Message was edited by: Martin Milner on 2003-02-10 07:15 ]
One or two handed version, Beth? I laughed myself silly about the part of learning the one handed, because that is EXACTLY what was said to me, and durned near exactly how I managed to do it. And now I can’t explain how.
Aside from the self-grown, and the afore-mentioned blade of grass, I’ve used acorn caps. What else do people use to make a shrieky whistle?
Great clip! It could replace some straw-chanter clip as one of my favorite ATM’s
Though… (getting negative)
Your. Title. IS. Miz. Leading:
You built an Ocarina. I detain substantial proof the instrument you thusly built is a Hemholz resonator.
Now positive, for balance (the old Scots shower, aka Mesquer neutrality method). If you have business sense, you can hipe this up to a workshop for stressed executives. Why them and not stressed students ? They’ll pay more; rather, their company will.
On 2003-02-10 07:48, Zubivka wrote:
Great clip! It could replace some straw-chanter clip as one of my favorite ATM’s > >
Automated Teller Machines?
Though… (getting negative)
Your. Title. IS. Miz. Leading:
You built an Ocarina. I detain substantial proof the instrument you thusly built is a Hemholz resonator.
The title is I Made A Whistle. (with some stubborness as emphasis.)
It is clearly designated as a “Whistle” on the stock photo page referenced because my camera batteries died.
