What position do you play in?
Re: What position do you play in?
so yer not goin' with the "Special Hula Hoop Low D" ploy, eh
shame, it could'a had legs.....
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Re: What position do you play in?
Ah, but there's "legs akimbo" as well as "arms akimbo" (the double teapot) although the latter has deeper roots:Pammy wrote:How can you play akimbo? That is when your hands are on your hips.
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I must say that I prefer standing up rather than sitting down to whistle. It opens the airway and also allows for a swifter exit from a hostile audience.
In orchestras I was always told off for playing cross-legged, although I think it was more to do with looking smart than sounding better.
Re: What position do you play in?
Did you devise this poll in the loo
standing up or sitting down
or while you were in the Q?
standing up or sitting down
or while you were in the Q?
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Re: What position do you play in?
I didn't compose it on a train, I didn't compose it in the rain.talasiga wrote:Did you devise this poll in the loo
standing up or sitting down
or while you were in the Q?
I didn't compose in the car, I didn't compose it at the bar.........
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Re: What position do you play in?
The obvious question: top or bottom?Nanohedron wrote:Missionary.
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I'm not a chiff-and-tell kind of guy. And if I said "versatile", who'd believe that, anyway? Uh-huh.MTGuru wrote:The obvious question: top or bottom?Nanohedron wrote:Missionary.
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Re: What position do you play in?
May extra goodness come your way to bestow on other people mikey.hoopy mike wrote:Ah, but there's "legs akimbo" as well as "arms akimbo" (the double teapot) although the latter has deeper roots:Pammy wrote:How can you play akimbo? That is when your hands are on your hips.
"The hoost... set his hond in kenebowe." Chaucer
I must say that I prefer standing up rather than sitting down to whistle. It opens the airway and also allows for a swifter exit from a hostile audience.
In orchestras I was always told off for playing cross-legged, although I think it was more to do with looking smart than sounding better.
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Re: What position do you play in?
I guess it depends if I am drinking a beer, then I hear a tune I really like and run to join in, but only for that tune. That is the only time I stand and play.
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Re: What position do you play in?
Well, trained singers and flute players etc etc will all tell you that you can breathe better standing up. You'll never see an opera singer perform sitting down (unless required by the staging I suppose). Likewise go to a James Galway or Pierre-Rampal concert or whatever and they'll stand if they can. (Of course "classical" wind players play sitting down while peforming as part of an orchestra. But they feel they get a better sound if they stand.)
So with flute and whistle I prefer to stand.
So with flute and whistle I prefer to stand.
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Re: What position do you play in?
I must admit the rest of my body gets more of a chance to take part when I stand, for better or worse. Certainly more fun and I reckon I play better.
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Re: What position do you play in?
Standing. You can inflate your lungs more easily that way.
I do play sitting, but only when I'm tracing a tune from the dots. (O boy, I'll get slammed, now!) Once the tune is in my head and nearly in my fingers, I'll stand.
Equally important, though, is how high you raise your whistle. I remember someone describing a guest whistler who kept his whistle modestly low. Fair enough, if you are standing. But if you are sitting, you need to hold your whistle higher.
Vertical - nervous and/or shy.
30 degrees from vertical - quietly comfortable
45 to 60 degrees from vertical - carelessly comfortable
horizontal - supremely confident
ten degrees beyond horizontal - showing off and/or lost in the zone
I do play sitting, but only when I'm tracing a tune from the dots. (O boy, I'll get slammed, now!) Once the tune is in my head and nearly in my fingers, I'll stand.
Equally important, though, is how high you raise your whistle. I remember someone describing a guest whistler who kept his whistle modestly low. Fair enough, if you are standing. But if you are sitting, you need to hold your whistle higher.
Vertical - nervous and/or shy.
30 degrees from vertical - quietly comfortable
45 to 60 degrees from vertical - carelessly comfortable
horizontal - supremely confident
ten degrees beyond horizontal - showing off and/or lost in the zone
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Re: What position do you play in?
so no one is gonna say fetal?
are ya all deaf?
are ya all deaf?
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Re: What position do you play in?
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Re: What position do you play in?
Standing if I want to play properly, but as I'm both fat and lazy, I inevitably practice while reclining on the lounge chair.
Mick
P.S I see nothing daft or silly in this poll as others have stated. Yes, it could have had some more options to vote on, but then you wouldn't have been giving people credit for imagination. Or the chance to type a reply to the option 'Other'.
Mick
P.S I see nothing daft or silly in this poll as others have stated. Yes, it could have had some more options to vote on, but then you wouldn't have been giving people credit for imagination. Or the chance to type a reply to the option 'Other'.
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