Are you the only whistler you've ever met?

ScottStewart · Post by **ScottStewart** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 4:43 pm

Several of the voices in my head are whistlers

. Seriously, I hear whistling perpetually as I have some pretty strong tinnitus. But, I've never met anyone who was a whistler before I met them. I've created a few, though. And from them dozens more were created from what I understand. A missionary friend picked up whistle after hearing me and and asking me about it. She went to Micronesia and taught many children there how to play. Then another missionary friend also picked it up after hearing me. I gave him a couple whistles and he went to his mission field in England.

spittin_in_the_wind · Post by **spittin_in_the_wind** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 4:55 pm

I feel so alone....sniff, sniff

I voted no, unless bantering with people in the chat room counts.

Robin

Emilie · Post by **Emilie** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 5:04 pm

I'm the only one I know, probably the only one in town as well..

I thought I was the only one in the country, but I found out lately that there was another Norwegian on the board: Eivind!

Still though, I'm 99% sure that I'm the only whistle-playing Canadian living in Norway. Aren't I special!

Emilie

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 2:37 am

SteveK wrote:
Wombat wrote:I don't get this question. I'm one of the few whistle players I haven't met.
Know thyself, Wombat. It is meet to do so.

Steve

Oh, I know myself Steve, as well as I can know someone I haven't yet met.

madguy · Post by **madguy** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 8:38 am

ScottStewart, I surely can relate to that tinnitus condition you mentioned - whistling 24/7!!!

And, my goodness, isn't Emilie a drop-dead cutie pie???

~Larry

Conley · Post by **Conley** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 9:05 am

My cousin plays the whistle...he's the one who turned me onto it.

Other than that, I had never met another whistler until just last Christmas. I was at a church function and had brought my whistle along for carolling. While I was playing, this girl sitting next to me (whom I had never seen before) whipped one out of her pocket and started playing along! It was really cool!

energy · Post by **energy** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 8:39 pm

[gloat]

My local session has five people who can play the whistle, no, wait, make it six. Normally we play other instruments though so it's not too bad...

I've also met Garry Shannon, John Williams(the one formerly of Solas), and a few other whistlers in Chicago.

So you can definitely say that I've met other whistlers.

I accidentally ran into a whistler once. It was at a camp at in Wisconsin's north woods...very rural area. So imagine my surprise when I go into one of the buildings, and there's this guy sitting off in a corner playing a low G. Turns out he was also an uilleann piper. Very cool meeting a fellow whistler in a place where you wouldn't expect there to be a whistle for miles around...

Oh, and I also met a whistler from Montana at the Milwaukee Irish fest last year.

[/gloat]

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 8:48 pm

I know there are a few other whistlers within my area(within 75 miles or so) but I've never met them.

I did meet Joanie Madden though.....

madfifer9 · Post by **madfifer9** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 9:11 pm

There are two other whistlers I know of at session, and I met a few at a workshop once. And there's another Civil War reenactor/whistler that I've played along with at lyceums, little musical variety shows that we have. And a grab bag of musicians (including both of us whistlers) played hymns at church call at one event last year. First time I'd been at a "preachin'" since I-don't-know-when.

Cheers,
madfifer9

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 11:27 pm

Let's see...

Tommy Makem
Fearghis
Wanda

That's it. 3 for sure. I've seen a few others here and there, but I can't say that I met them formally.

aderyn_du · Post by **aderyn_du** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 8:42 am

Speaking of meeting other whistlers...Dale just said in the newsletter that he was here in Atlanta on March 15. He didn't even let us Atlanta folks know so that we could say howdy. I'm bummed. Our chance to meet the now extra-famous Undisputed, and we missed it!!

Andrea

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 11:22 am

57+40+1=98%

where'd the other 2% go? I think the poll system has some bugs...

adeiladwr · Post by **adeiladwr** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 9:57 am

I met one once.
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The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 4:15 pm

Until I found C&F, I had never met another whistler but one, who plays the whistle in a whimsical Renaissancy style, and without the rolls etc.

It was sooooooo lonely.

Elerossë · Post by **Elerossë** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 4:17 pm

Sorry to say, I have not met another whistler....maybe it is the climate? Ontario is quite cold, and may not be the proper climate to grow whistlers.

Kailtin

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