Teach yourself whistle : 'a great resource'

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:02 am

I found <a href="http://www.cs.tcd.ie/~mcintyrp/Assignme ... .swf">this site</a> : learn to play the whistle on your own with help from the internet.

I posted it to another thread in reply to a specific question and already some comments came in :

'A great resource" (Bro Steve)
'Somebody put a lot of work into that" (Jerry Freeman)

I think this deserves it's own thread.

Enjoy.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:50 am

Peter, i think your programming skills are coming right along! Thanks for creating this great resource.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:27 pm

The first link to ever leave me speechless.

Thanks Peter.

Slan,
D.

Whitmores75087 · Post by **Whitmores75087** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 5:19 pm

Once you've become an expert in something it takes a lot of smarts to go back and teach the fundamentals. Whoever put this together (Peter??) didn't leave out the fact that beginners have trouble remembering finger positions for the notes. I love it. Except for the whistle sounds. Bit raspy I'd say. But then again, the beginner doesn't feel discouraged that his Generation doesn't soudn like the recording. In this case his Generation sounds BETTER!

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:14 pm

I'm absolutely certain Peter did not put the site together. The inference that he did was in jest.

Susan

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:16 pm

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:42 pm

susnfx wrote:I'm absolutely certain Peter did not put the site together. The inference that he did was in jest.

Susan

You're mistaken, Susan.

I know for a fact that it's Peter's work. He's just too modest to take the credit.

Best wishes,
Jerry

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:24 pm

It's inspiring! I'm thinking of doing a poetry site now. I think I'll have every word in the English language recorded, maybe by those phone company people, stored in a data base, and then linked to each word in a poem so you could get a really good dramatic reading of it. You know, for the nuances which you can't really pick up from just reading a poem....

Whaddya think?

Carol

Tyghress · Post by **Tyghress** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:45 pm

I'm simply grateful to have this resource to learn what a high B should sound like!

Wonder what he got as a grade.

aderyn_du · Post by **aderyn_du** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:21 pm

cskinner wrote:It's inspiring! I'm thinking of doing a poetry site now. I think I'll have every word in the English language recorded, maybe by those phone company people, stored in a data base, and then linked to each word in a poem so you could get a really good dramatic reading of it. You know, for the nuances which you can't really pick up from just reading a poem....

Whaddya think?

Carol

Carol, I think that would be brilliant... kind of like a high-tech version of those poetry fridge magnets!

Will O'B · Post by **Will O'B** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:28 am

cskinner wrote:Whaddya think?

Carol

I think that some of the poets that I've heard read their work didn't sound much different than your poem database would sound.

Will O'Ban

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:39 am

The creator of the website is Patrick McIntyre, B.Sc.

(Anybody know what a B.Sc. is? -- I could look it up, but that would be work.)

Susan

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:52 am

Decent use of Flash. Will Bro Steve close his site now?

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:52 am

batchelor of science, it's a degree. The address of the site is cs.tcd.ie computer science at trinity college dublin you would guess.

Teri-K · Post by **Teri-K** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:59 am

He's a postgrad at Trinity: http://www.cs.tcd.ie/~mcintyrp/