OT - Annoyed Spouse
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SirNick
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OT - Annoyed Spouse
Does anybody else here have a spouse that, " doesn't want to here about" any whistle updates or current events within the whistle community. Or should I say, how many other people have a spouse that... What do you think. Is it a feeling of resentment over time spent with other people or could it be an allergic reaction to Itrad music in general. Hey, I could be collecting U. pipes for gosh sakes! (that statement never goes over well) I may be parnoid but sometimes I feel like she might be plotting against my whistles!!
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Re: OT - Annoyed Spouse
I tried a similar comment with her but on a different topic. She caught me gawking at a particularly nice looking person of the opposite sex. When she commented I told her "Hey, I could be looking at guys!!"SirNick wrote: Hey, I could be collecting U. pipes for gosh sakes! (that statement never goes over well)
We now understand each other a lot better now.I just turned my wife over to the dark side. Now we both like to evaluate instruments and thus we are on a dual quest for the perfect whistle. This has brought a pretty wide cross section of instuments (mainly whistles) in all price ranges into our household. Very fun, this adventure. It also keeps us out of bars and alleys.
Now, regarding the forum and all that happens here: She is fairly patient with the time but could give a rats patooie about participating!
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Re: OT - Annoyed Spouse
SirNick,SirNick wrote:Does anybody else here have a spouse that, " doesn't want to here about" any whistle updates or current events within the whistle community. Or should I say, how many other people have a spouse that... What do you think. Is it a feeling of resentment over time spent with other people or could it be an allergic reaction to Itrad music in general. Hey, I could be collecting U. pipes for gosh sakes! (that statement never goes over well) I may be parnoid but sometimes I feel like she might be plotting against my whistles!!
I recommend you mail your spouse off to Mack Hoover and have her white-capped. It won't solve you're problem but it'll make her much quieter and sweeter.
Colin
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SirNick
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Re: OT - Annoyed Spouse
Hey, that's pure genuis! I'll contact Mack immedately!Colin wrote: SirNick,
I recommend you mail your spouse off to Mack Hoover and have her white-capped. It won't solve you're problem but it'll make her much quieter and sweeter.
Colin
I have a feeling this particular post might get us both nuked! I should say that her "whistles" are computers and clothing and I am probably a little more involved with collecting whistles than most people. I used to be this way with guitars, basses and amps."You have my undivided attention"
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LOL... as long as it doesn't involve money (yeah, right - like *that*'s gonna happen!), and I don't take out the itty-bitty high Gen G... I'm fairly safe. He appreciates that I practice, though I do note that he usually finds someplace else to be (unless I pull one out in the car, heehee)
He's very supportive, and I'm sure is praying I'll keep trying tour whistles rather than deciding I have to have certain ones... um... like the O'Brien set....
He's very supportive, and I'm sure is praying I'll keep trying tour whistles rather than deciding I have to have certain ones... um... like the O'Brien set....
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Buy him a Bodhan! TV advertisement breaks will never be the same again.anniemcu wrote:LOL... as long as it doesn't involve money (yeah, right - like *that*'s gonna happen!), and I don't take out the itty-bitty high Gen G... I'm fairly safe. He appreciates that I practice, though I do note that he usually finds someplace else to be (unless I pull one out in the car, heehee)
He's very supportive, and I'm sure is praying I'll keep trying tour whistles rather than deciding I have to have certain ones... um... like the O'Brien set....
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LOL! He's got one already, and thankfully, that hadn't occured to him... until now, that is..........Martin Milner wrote:Buy him a Bodhan! TV advertisement breaks will never be the same again.
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SirNick
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I often wonder if I was with someone as into the whistle and Itrad as I am, if it would become competitive or if I would rebel and find a new interest like rec**ders, slide whistles or nose whistles. You know, something different. Although it would be fun to play music with your other half.
Although it would be fun to play music with your other half."You have my undivided attention"
I try not to play in the same room as my wife, mostly.
When I'm actually playing *music* and working my way through a lot of different tunes, she sometimes enjoys listening. But listening to someone learning a tune, playing it over, and over, and over . . .
Between me on the whistle and our daughters on piano, she has a lot to put up with. And it's testimony to a fundamentally sweet and loving nature that she hasn't yet taken a cleaver to the lot of us.
When I'm actually playing *music* and working my way through a lot of different tunes, she sometimes enjoys listening. But listening to someone learning a tune, playing it over, and over, and over . . .
Between me on the whistle and our daughters on piano, she has a lot to put up with. And it's testimony to a fundamentally sweet and loving nature that she hasn't yet taken a cleaver to the lot of us.
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I don't have a spouse, but I have a roommate, and she prefers it when I practice while she's not home 
She particularly does not like ITM. Although I was able to bring her to a friend's house party a few weeks ago where we played music and also had a bit of a ceili going on in the dining room, and she enjoyed the dancing - but we had to leave before the night was over!
Which was OK too, as we ended up going to the local pub, where there were live musicians playing some ITM!! She just rolled her eyes, and started chatting up the young man sitting next to us
She particularly does not like ITM. Although I was able to bring her to a friend's house party a few weeks ago where we played music and also had a bit of a ceili going on in the dining room, and she enjoyed the dancing - but we had to leave before the night was over!
Which was OK too, as we ended up going to the local pub, where there were live musicians playing some ITM!! She just rolled her eyes, and started chatting up the young man sitting next to us
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Re: OT - Annoyed Spouse
Whenever I pick up a whistle there is always a chore or household crisis that requires my immediate attention. Coincidence? A few times maybe ...SirNick wrote:I may be parnoid but sometimes I feel like she might be plotting against my whistles!!
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Colin wrote:
Mack seems like a really nice guy, so I bet he'd be egalitarian and whitecap complaining male spouses/parters, too.
The answer to this complaining issue is actually fairly simple (although more expensive than a whitecap)...buy a flute. Whistle practice with my wife at home is akin to duct taping raw meat on your body and going for a swim in the ocean, but the flute is endured even in the wee hours...and sometimes even appreciated.
Eric
I hereby nominate Colin for best post of the month - not that there is such an award, but that's one darn fine post and deserves something!SirNick,
I recommend you mail your spouse off to Mack Hoover and have her white-capped. It won't solve you're problem but it'll make her much quieter and sweeter.
Colin
Mack seems like a really nice guy, so I bet he'd be egalitarian and whitecap complaining male spouses/parters, too.
The answer to this complaining issue is actually fairly simple (although more expensive than a whitecap)...buy a flute. Whistle practice with my wife at home is akin to duct taping raw meat on your body and going for a swim in the ocean, but the flute is endured even in the wee hours...and sometimes even appreciated.
Eric
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while Tom doesn't have Whoa, we both have DAd (dulcimer aquisition disease) - in fact, it's because of dulcimers that we met.
The way we solved it was Tom plays the "regular" voiced dulcimer, and I do the bass and baritone. So, we look for songs where we can BOTH work out parts.
We do have to occasionally move to different parts of the house to work out those parts!
For the "other" instruments, I do whistles and bodhran, he does that thing that starts with an "R" - he has a soprano, tenor and baritone of those. Oh - and he does the Native American Flute. If we ever get a low whistle, he's gonna have to do that too cuz my fingers don't reach.
Missy
The way we solved it was Tom plays the "regular" voiced dulcimer, and I do the bass and baritone. So, we look for songs where we can BOTH work out parts.
We do have to occasionally move to different parts of the house to work out those parts!
For the "other" instruments, I do whistles and bodhran, he does that thing that starts with an "R" - he has a soprano, tenor and baritone of those. Oh - and he does the Native American Flute. If we ever get a low whistle, he's gonna have to do that too cuz my fingers don't reach.
Missy