Poll: How do you Anchor?
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I voted that I didn't think about it (which is true). But when I took my whistle in hand, I discovered that if all holes are open, I will be anchoring the whistle with right-hand thumb and little finger (pinkie).
I don't think about it. The alternative is the whistle falling at my feet, which would be even more embarrassing than people hearing the way I play normally.
I don't think about it. The alternative is the whistle falling at my feet, which would be even more embarrassing than people hearing the way I play normally.
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I use my lower ring finger (R1) as a balance finger most of the time, but increasingly, I find myself using R2 on the E-hole to balance depending on the fingering sequence in the tune. I never use my pinkie. I don't remember consiously beginning to play this way, but one day I just noticed what I was doing and it works very well.
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It's called the "Neuman" grip and it was popularized by myself. It's for those of us who need to exert a "death grip" on the whistle to keep it from sliding out from between our hairy, rec**der-handling palms!dDave wrote:Howdy,
Thumbs and pinkies on both hands.
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bozemanhc wrote:I use my lower ring finger (R1) as a balance finger most of the time, but increasingly, I find myself using R2 on the E-hole to balance depending on the fingering sequence in the tune. I never use my pinkie. I don't remember consiously beginning to play this way, but one day I just noticed what I was doing and it works very well.
ditto
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I find using the RH pinkie helpful for fast octave changes in G maj, using the cross fingered C Nat, otherwise the whistle sometimes slips.
Tom O'Farrell.
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