How to seduce with a whistle?

boatgirl · Post by **boatgirl** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:40 pm

The titanic theme on a Bb. Romantic and everyone knows it, and loves it.

good luck!

BigDavy · Post by **BigDavy** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:00 pm

Can't find a whistle version - but how about Neil Gow's Lament for his Second Wife.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-hpwdtK4W4

The ABC

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1892

David

Anstapa · Post by **Anstapa** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:39 pm

You could demonstrate how you tonque whistle while playing

Anstapa

Key_of_D · Post by **Key_of_D** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:45 pm

I find the fingering more important...

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:09 pm

Ignore the sour grapes guys. If she doesn't like your whistling, then you might want to find another girl. If your passion for your music doesn't appeal to her, it is doomed from the start.

Bothrops · Post by **Bothrops** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:24 pm

anniemcu wrote:Ignore the sour grapes guys. If she doesn't like your whistling, then you might want to find another girl. If your passion for your music doesn't appeal to her, it is doomed from the start.

+1

sbfluter · Post by **sbfluter** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:30 pm

I think Trip to Pakistan is Scottish.

I think you shouldn't play any whistle lesser than a Bb. Size does matter I'm afraid. At least the romance factor seems to improve the bigger the whistle.

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:34 pm

I got my first whistle in 1985 and when my wife (from Kilmarnock, Scotland) left me, she gave my whistle playing as one of the reasons she left me. She said that it made her homesick.

She went to England and lived close to her sister, but after she died and the subway was bombed (the bombers lived 8 miles from her) and she needed some medical work done (the health service put her on a 1 year waiting list for a colonoscopy), she returned to the USA.

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:09 pm

anniemcu wrote:Ignore the sour grapes guys. If she doesn't like your whistling, then you might want to find another girl. If your passion for your music doesn't appeal to her, it is doomed from the start.

I think this expresses a lot of wisdom.

If she doesn't like the sound of the whistle, chances are further exposure is only going to make her like it less.

If you're a musician, then you have to play. If you give it up or limit it for her, you will resent her for it no matter how much you may think you won't.

Just my $.02.

--James

Key_of_D · Post by **Key_of_D** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:26 pm

Yeah, well I'm no professional musican, but I'm definitely passionate about playing my music, (ITM) and I wouldn't give it up for no woman. I would probably limit my playing time just to be curtious, since I play waaaaaaay too much as it is!! There is such a thing as compromise...

But I would hope there's more to relationships then just your whistling....

If she likes it, awesome. If not, feck 'er.

(or you need lessons one of the two...)

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:28 pm

brianormond wrote:-Put on a "Cherish The Ladies" CD and let Joanie do the hard work, knowing it'll be played beautifully.

Decent idea, but a personal performance is still better and more romantic.

brianormond wrote:Tell your intended Joanie was booked to appear but was called away suddenly to a far-away whistle crisis and left the CD as consolation.

-Your sweetie won't buy it but may (or may not) appreciate the attempt to please. If it doesn't work its not for fault of the music.

Not a good idea. Lying to the person you are trying to impress is NEVER a good idea.

riverman · Post by **riverman** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:55 pm

Boody wrote:Hmmm, maybe a Bb whistle? They aren't so shrill as D's so maybe she might like it more. You can get a generation Bb cheap and they are nice.

In my experience, most people I try to share music with end up appalled at all the money I spend on them and other instruments and I don't even have any of the expensive ones

Funny, isn't it. People now think nothing of dropping over a hundred bucks at a fine restaurant, but if you drop the same thing for a high-end whistle that lasts forever, they're horrified.

breqwas · Post by **breqwas** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:19 am

anniemcu wrote:Ignore the sour grapes guys. If she doesn't like your whistling, then you might want to find another girl. If your passion for your music doesn't appeal to her, it is doomed from the start.

Exactly. And, in fact, I can't believe there's anyone who can listen for hours to my whistle without getting mad - if he's (she's) not a musician him(her)self.

I wish I could find a girl with a violin to fall in love with :)

ElPollo · Post by **ElPollo** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:39 am

Anstapa wrote:You could demonstrate how you tonque whistle while playing

Key_of_D wrote:I find the fingering more important...

I was of the impression that they're of equal importance?

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:22 am

ElPollo wrote:
Anstapa wrote:You could demonstrate how you tonque whistle while playing

Key_of_D wrote:I find the fingering more important...
I was of the impression that they're of equal importance?

Also, you could mention that the length of the whistle is not important: it's how well you play it that counts...