mouth-whistling

amar · Post by **amar** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:24 am

a question here, i whistle by mouth very often, all the time actually, and i can whistle pretty well too. Now, when i whistle something, no matter what it is (except classical music), i catch myself whistling all the tunes or or melodies "irish-style", meaning, i put in taps, cuts, rolls, slides, etc. I make everything sound kind of irtrad.

anyone else do that?

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:30 am

You're a strange and complex fellow, Swiss-dood, and no mistake!

BrassBlower · Post by **BrassBlower** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:10 am

Does it carry over into your whistle playing in such a way that the ornamentation shows up without you having to move a finger?

amar · Post by **amar** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:23 am

BrassBlower wrote:Does it carry over into your whistle playing in such a way that the ornamentation shows up without you having to move a finger?

unfortunately not, but i does help me decide where i want to add an ornamentation, which of course isn't as easy doing it with my fingers as with my mouth.

the strange thing is, i am not good at making ornamentations by tongue on the whistle (well, like tonguing notes, all that other stuff that finnegan does) eventhough i do that very much when mouth-whistling.
life is full of riddles.

maybe i'll add a mouth whistle-clip once on the clips and snips.

Danner · Post by **Danner** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:53 am

I mouth whistle all the time. (Much to the annoyance of everyone around me.) When I'm whistling ITM stuff I stick in the ITM ornaments, but on other stuff I add in ornaments appropriate to the style. (Grace notes in classical, glissandos and accents in pep band, etc.)

amar · Post by **amar** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:59 am

you see gary, i'm not the only strange and complex fellow around here.

Tyghress · Post by **Tyghress** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:39 pm

Not only do I insert the ornamentation, I've learned to whistle in tune! Before I could whistle notes that resembled the 'true pitch' the way a cartoon character resembles a real cat....but over 4 years of tin whistling, my mouth whistling tunes are recognizable.

norseman · Post by **norseman** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:25 pm

I was going to start a thread on this on the flute forum. I'm a pretty good mouth whistler, and I was able to pick up flute playing pretty easily at least as far as getting a good solid tone. I imagine that since you use many of the same little muscles for flute playing as for mouth whistling, it might be good training.

Bob

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:14 pm

When I whistle by mouth, I make strange sound effects that sound like fax machines.

Actually I do a number of sounds, including ornamentation. I think mouth sounds sound more like occarinas than whistles.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:52 pm

Bing Crosby could whistle really well...although he would croon his whistling rather than "Irish" his whistling.
Oh, and to answer the question, I can't whistle a note :roll:

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:10 am

amar wrote:a question here, i whistle by mouth very often, all the time actually, and i can whistle pretty well too. Now, when i whistle something, no matter what it is (except classical music), i catch myself whistling all the tunes or or melodies "irish-style", meaning, i put in taps, cuts, rolls, slides, etc. I make everything sound kind of irtrad.

anyone else do that?

I whistle all the time, as well, am completely unaware that I'm doing it, and it's pretty good. It's likely the reason I live alone.

It seems that I've been doing the Irtrad ornamentation since childhood, and have no idea where I learned it. Probably from my dad. Upon learning the flute and whistle ornamentation, I was surprised to see that it was something I already knew and . . . even more surprising, that it was something anyone would think to actually teach. (After all, doesn't EVERYONE do it?)

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:56 am

Me too. I've been mouth whistling since I was a wee lad. It helps also in figuring out how I want to play something. It's like having a portable built in instrument. Maybe we should start a mouth whistle band.

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:58 am

Flyingcursor wrote:Me too. I've been mouth whistling since I was a wee lad. It helps also in figuring out how I want to play something. It's like having a portable built in instrument. Maybe we should start a mouth whistle band.

me too. i'll join you.

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