Early onset WHoA?
- wfredette
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Early onset WHoA?
Just wondering... has anyone else ever succumbed to WHoA before even becoming proficient on their first whistle? I just bought an Alba Low D about 4 weeks after getting my Howard Low D - which was my first whistle. Should I seek help?!
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Re: Early onset WHoA?
ME!!!! I have!!! (waving hand wildly in the air). I am constantly scouring Ebay for new whistles, and I'm hardly proficient on my Clare D. I need more...more I say!!!wfredette wrote:Just wondering... has anyone else ever succumbed to WHoA before even becoming proficient on their first whistle? I just bought an Alba Low D about 4 weeks after getting my Howard Low D - which was my first whistle. Should I seek help?!
As for getting help, I wouldn't if I were you. You never know where those anti-whistle types are lurking...you'll just give them ammo. And the next thing you know, they'll have you thinking that you need to check into some clinic for WhOA therapy.
Heather...proud member of the Whistlers' Resistance
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I have 8 and am an exceedingly long way from being proficient, though I *will* get to 'listenable' eventually!
And I'm finding the Chiffboard is giving me all the help I need ...
... in deciding which whistles to lust after next.
"I'm not addicted, I can 'andle it" <sniff>
And I'm finding the Chiffboard is giving me all the help I need ...
... in deciding which whistles to lust after next.
"I'm not addicted, I can 'andle it" <sniff>
All we have to decide is what to do with the tune that is given us.
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If you are only up to 2 you must have begun in the last 2 weeks. You have also started at a much higher end than most of us. I am up to 18 but the most expensive is a Susato D. I wouldn't be quite as high but I bought a complete set of Nickel Generations and my daughter gave me the set of Brass Gens. I need an Overton. I need an Alba. I need an O'Riordan. I need a Hoover. I need a Bussman. I need just a few more.
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Funny, i've been playing the whistle for 17 years and I have only... wait... 7 whistles.
I tend to get attached to just one and play it into the ground. I even have the original whistle my dad gave me when I was five!
They're so beautiful when they're sporting a couple dents and the gold is worn off the finger holes! *sniff*
Call me sentimental...
I tend to get attached to just one and play it into the ground. I even have the original whistle my dad gave me when I was five!
They're so beautiful when they're sporting a couple dents and the gold is worn off the finger holes! *sniff*
Call me sentimental...
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WhOA isn't two whistles. Some of us had dozens before we could play them very well.
Though I will concur that you have some sort of syndrome, Only two whistles, both expensive lows, is a new one, even on thhis wacky crew . The usual WhOA sufferer actually starts with a wide selection of cheap high whistles.
Are you haunting eBay yet?
Though I will concur that you have some sort of syndrome, Only two whistles, both expensive lows, is a new one, even on thhis wacky crew . The usual WhOA sufferer actually starts with a wide selection of cheap high whistles.
Are you haunting eBay yet?
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True. The whistles everyone wanted to play at WC week were one that a girl in my class had got from her dad, a brass Generation with a vertical ridge line above the windway (i.e. before they redesigned the fipple) and MurphyStout's greentop Generation that he's played almost exclusively and worn most of the lacquer off. Both had that something about them that said "I've been loved and played loads, and I'm good for years yet".Gadget wrote:Funny, i've been playing the whistle for 17 years and I have only... wait... 7 whistles.
I tend to get attached to just one and play it into the ground. I even have the original whistle my dad gave me when I was five!
They're so beautiful when they're sporting a couple dents and the gold is worn off the finger holes! *sniff*
Call me sentimental...
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that schwing
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Heck-- I got WHOA before I even learned to play at all!! I was already a pretty good recorder player when I got the Irish bug and made a trip to Andy's Front Hall ( not far from here) to choose a whistle and book to learn from . I ended up with Bill Ochs' "The Clarke Tinwhistle" which at the time was packaged with a whistle. However, even then I looked at all the other choices in the case and drooled ( figuratively speaking...). Actually, come to think of it, in those days ( mid- 80's) there weren't a whole lot of choices, but I wanted them all anyway. Couple of Shaws ( which I soon bought) and a fabulously expensive $125 Thin Weasel which took me about a year to justify....
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Chuck_Clark wrote:I will concur that you have some sort of syndrome, Only two whistles, both expensive lows, is a new one, even on thhis wacky crew . The usual WhOA sufferer actually starts with a wide selection of cheap high whistles.
Are you haunting eBay yet?
Yep. eBay is where I picked up the Alba Low D. So I guess I'm patient zero for the newly discovered LoWHoA. I'll quarrantine myself to protect you all.