You KNow Your Getting Better When:
- KDMARTINKY
- Posts: 781
- Joined: Mon Jun 14, 2004 2:02 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Kentucky
You KNow Your Getting Better When:
Playing my Low D in my office during my lunch when I here a knock at the door...It's a fellow worker who wants to know were she can buy the CD that she heard coming from my office.....I said lend me the money and you can have the CD in a Month...lol
Sometimes you have to give yourself a pat on the back....your improving all the time and even if you can't tell.....others can, so keep on whistling....
Sometimes you have to give yourself a pat on the back....your improving all the time and even if you can't tell.....others can, so keep on whistling....
Keith
Bionn dha insint ar sceal agus leagon deag ar amhran
There are two versions of every story and twelve of every song
Bionn dha insint ar sceal agus leagon deag ar amhran
There are two versions of every story and twelve of every song
- glauber
- Posts: 4967
- Joined: Thu Aug 22, 2002 6:00 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: I'm from Brazil, living in the Chicago area (USA)
- Contact:
Wow! you have an office! With a door! And you take lunch breaks!
I envy you.
I envy you.
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog!
--Wellsprings--
--Wellsprings--
-
- Posts: 131
- Joined: Sat Jun 05, 2004 4:31 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Flagstaff, Arizona
...Sometimes it's hard to pat yourself on the back when your girlfriend's(the only person that's heard my playing since I started about a month ago) only reaction has been negative comments and moans and groans whenever she sees you pick up the whistle. She claims that she doesn't like the sound of the tin whistle. While I'm no master of the tin whistle, I can say that I've learned several tunes (ranging from airs to reels) and I can at least play 'em through the correct way and with little to no mistakes whatsoever (I'm patting my own back). So, I usually wait to play when she's not around...
"...patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings" - "Sweetheart Like You" by Bob Dylan
-
- Posts: 40
- Joined: Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:05 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: State of Confusion...er, Louisiana
I've seen some interesting expressions from folks when I play in the car while sitting out a red light, does that count?
Today is the Tomorrow you worried about Yesterday....Was it worth it?
----------
Music is the traveller crossing our world, reaching so many people, bridging the seas.
---The Moody Blues
----------
Music is the traveller crossing our world, reaching so many people, bridging the seas.
---The Moody Blues
- SilverStrand
- Posts: 147
- Joined: Sat May 15, 2004 11:18 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Granite Falls, Washington
Once I was helping out at the high school for a play and I brought my whistles because I thought they would be awesome being played onstage a bit. I started playing a tiny piece to a couple of friends and everyone in the lobby quieted, turned and looked at me, and someone said, "Wow! That is so cool! I just want to get up and do a jig!" So i continued a bit with my playing and sure enough, the boy stood up and started dancing...
...I mean, the fact that they recognized it was a whistle used for Irish music and I was playing an Irish song shows that i've improved...it was also the first time I played in front of a bunch of people!
...I mean, the fact that they recognized it was a whistle used for Irish music and I was playing an Irish song shows that i've improved...it was also the first time I played in front of a bunch of people!
"Block out the Sun and Pack up the Sky"
- Flyingcursor
- Posts: 6573
- Joined: Tue Jul 30, 2002 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
- Tell us something.: This is the first sentence. This is the second of the recommended sentences intended to thwart spam its. This is a third, bonus sentence!
- Location: Portsmouth, VA1, "the States"
- Martin Milner
- Posts: 4350
- Joined: Tue Oct 16, 2001 6:00 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: London UK
Lone, get yourself a low G whistle, it's between a normal D and a low D in size. I have a Dixon G, and the size and spacing of the holes is still manageable with normal hold, but it's far less shrill, and thus easier on your girl. You can learn the same tunes on that, and then play them on the D with a very little adjustment. To be fair to your girl, the D whistle can be tough on others until they suffer the partial hearing loss required to really appreciate the high notes. Or just tell her you want to learn the pipes, and she'll beg you to stick with the whistle!lonewhistler wrote:... She claims that she doesn't like the sound of the tin whistle....
I was playing fiddle in my lunch hour (but not in my office, I use the stairwells), practising Lucy Farr's Polka, and when I stopped a colleague two floors up called for an encore! An improvement on the days when they asked me to stop teasing the cat!
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that schwing
- Darwin
- Posts: 2719
- Joined: Sat Jan 03, 2004 2:38 am
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Flower Mound, TX
- Contact:
Ah. That's why my whistling sounds better to me now than it did when I first started...Martin Milner wrote:To be fair to your girl, the D whistle can be tough on others until they suffer the partial hearing loss required to really appreciate the high notes.
And I thought that I was improving--not just going deaf.
Mike Wright
"When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place."
--Goethe
"When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place."
--Goethe
-
- Posts: 131
- Joined: Sat Jun 05, 2004 4:31 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Flagstaff, Arizona
...Well, I do most (if not all) of my practicing (learning new tunes) when she's not around. I can fully understand how a beginner on the tin whistle would make any ear shiver with fright, that's why I practice when there's no one else around (I even close the window so the neighbors won't be bothered). However, when I'm just sitting down to play a few tunes at my lesiure, she even gets annoyed with that!! And, honestly, I don't sound THAT bad playing... I don't have a problem with her not liking the tin whistle, we all have different tastes. But, I'd like to hear SOME kind of encouragment from her now and then...To be fair to your girl, the D whistle can be tough on others until they suffer the partial hearing loss required to really appreciate the high notes.
Oh well, I don't want to turn this into a pity party. I'll keep on playing no matter what anyone thinks...
"...patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings" - "Sweetheart Like You" by Bob Dylan
-
- Posts: 131
- Joined: Sat Jun 05, 2004 4:31 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Flagstaff, Arizona
...it's hard practicing the tin whistle because it's an intrument that really can't be played "softly". I also play guitar (electric) and that's something that can be played at all hours: just have to turn down the amplifier...no one's bothered then.
"...patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings" - "Sweetheart Like You" by Bob Dylan