OT: Where are you from?

[lilymaid]

I occurred to me the majority of folks here seem to be American, which is rather odd, since whistle aren't. I'm curious as to where Chiff and Fipplers are from.

I'm a North American of the American variety.

edited because I forgot to mark it OT and later because somehow the poll was missing

[LimuHead]

I grew up in a house on the beach in Hawaii, but I currently live in North America.....California, to be exact.

[StewySmoot]

Born and raised in NYC.

[Paul]

I grew up in a house on the beach in Hawaii, ...

Limu... Good god man, why on earth did you leave?????????? Which Island?

-Paul

[Lark]

I’m From Nova Scotia but the main Land, not Cape Brettion .

everyone that clicked other, where are you from? I would love to know:-)

[ErikT]

Don't forget Australia. And Pacific Islands.

[Walden]

I am from the area between Bentonville, Arkansas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

[lilymaid]

Don't forget Australia. And Pacific Islands.

I thought I might forget something, so I put in the "other" option.

[harrywhohaa]

Don't forget Australia.

Absolutely, there are plenty of us down here (Melbourne) whistling.

Even if it is a little difficult with the moisture running back up the whistle...

[Turner]

Near Chesterfield, North Derbyshire, England, In the heart of the Peak District

[Walden]

I occurred to me the majority of folks here seem to be American, which is rather odd, since whistle aren't.

Very few instruments are American in origin, modern banjo, Appalachian dulcimer, and NA flute being some of the more American instruments. Most instruments probably developed, or were adapted, in more than one culture. But, mostly, I still don't believe that musical instruments generally have nationalities.

Fiddles, for example, are prominent in many cultures, often in the form of the classical violin, which was developed in Italy, from earlier forms. But the same instrument is used in indigenous ways in the folk music of the world.

And it is so often so; Hawaiian ukulele, comes from Portuguese original, but indiginized. And from Hawaii, it became quite popular in the American mainland.

Often, as in the case of the steel guitar, instruments reach another culture, being associated with a national music that has become popular. In that case, the popularity of Hawaiian music in the United States. But once the instrument becomes indiginized, it ceases to have the "foreign connotation." As in the adaptation of the steel guitar in country & western music, and blues.

There seems to be the same phenomenon with "simple system" flutes, tinwhistles, uillean pipes, bodhrans, and so forth. These instruments are common in Irish folk music, and that music is very popular now. So, many people in America, and abroad, have taken up the instruments they associate with this music. But we already see these instruments used increasingly in various American forms of music.

[burnsbyrne]

I was born in Detroit, lived in Cleveland since I was 8. Three grandparents from SW Ontario, one from Dublin.
Mike

[Zubivka]

... same as our pipes probably evolved from Middle East origins,
and our "typical" Breton bombarde borrows a lot from the muslim world free-reeds encountered during the Crusades. Same with a likely Arab origin of the Spanish guitar.

More recently, what to say of the presence of banjos, squeezeboxes and booze-ookies in Ireland? The Hooligans' pipe itself seems to have French "musette" roots (as we say, deepest roots make the best glass or wine. Or pipe of whine :roll: )

Fortunately, it seems that there are no more "ethnically pure" instruments than men.

[pthouron]

Born and raised in France, living in New Jersey.

[glauber]

Born and jaded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, living in the USA (Chicago area) for the past 12 years.