Places they won't let you play a whistle

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:59 am

Center for Sleep Study

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:04 am

Trappist monastery?

Marko · Post by **Marko** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:30 am

Within 100 meters of other living creatures
(but i'm really not at all good)

Jayhawk · Post by **Jayhawk** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:34 am

On a park bench right outside the county courthouse (directly under a courtroom window). True event - playing fife in this very location I looked up when I heard pounding to a sea of angry faces...including one in black robes shaking his fist at me!

Eric

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:45 am

In the main office of my water treatment plant during weekdays (which is why I love night shift).

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:49 am

Onboard Amtrak.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:35 am

I should have added....anywhere anyone can hear me.

rkottke · Post by **rkottke** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:55 am

Anytime at home when my spouse has either Oprah or Dr. Phil on the television. But just because I am not allowed, does not mean that I quit playing the whistle, I just go to another room and play louder!

{As an aside, it is wondrous how much squawking a whistle can do when Oprah is pontificating. I know that the purpose of practice is to eliminate squawking but when she is on television, I just cannot help it!}

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:20 am

Brewster MA on Cape Cod. I sat out on a deck at a rented house playing the Brass Burke and a lady about 500 yards downhill called on the phone and threatened to call the police and the "association" for that "flute-thing."

Couldn't I go inside, she said? Wrecked a beautiful morning in a way. My first taste of East Coast hospitality.

Montana · Post by **Montana** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:26 am

In a very old, thus very slow, small elevator in a historic hotel. The place we were to be playing in was a ballroom at the top of the hotel. I went up alone with all the sound equipment (there was no room for anyone else) and started playing. Kind of a cool echo-y sound but a few residents of the hotel were less than appreciative.

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:06 pm

Rap concerts and operas - possibly the only thing the two have in common.

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:42 pm

In a library. Except, quite possibly, at the library where MarkB works and when he is on duty!!!

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:55 pm

In the stairwell of Church Hall (a dormitory) at the University of Georgia.

NicoMoreno · Post by **NicoMoreno** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:12 pm

Chuck_Clark wrote:Rap concerts and operas - possibly the only thing the two have in common.

I was listening to an article thingy on the radio about the similarities of rap and opera (using sound examples of both). It was really cool, and about the only time I have come close to respecting rap as art music.

I would repeat some of it, but I have forgotten most of it.

One quick thing: the guy compared the arias in opera to something similar in a rap song, (a fairly popular one that plays on most radio stations). Like I said, pretty cool, at least from a sort of musicologist point of view.

sandpiper · Post by **sandpiper** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:35 pm

NorCalMusician wrote:In a library. Except, quite possibly, at the library where MarkB works and when he is on duty!!!

I work in a library and lots of time you wouldn't be able to hear someone playing the whistle in there, it gets pretty noisy! ... libraries aren't the quiet, stuffy places they once were, at least not the one I work in!

another place that comes to mind...
at an orthodontics appointment