whistles are better than flutes.

OnTheMoor · Post by **OnTheMoor** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 2:31 pm

Flutes are much, much sexier.

StewySmoot · Post by **StewySmoot** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:45 pm

There are tunes that sound absolutely perfect on the whistle. That perfection needs to spring beyond the confines of ITM.

Whitmores75087 · Post by **Whitmores75087** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:21 pm

It's a daunting challenge to play flute at full ITM speed. Some can do it, but not many. Most flute players that I know switch to something else when the going gets rough (guitar, whistle).

misterpatrick · Post by **misterpatrick** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:59 pm

Whistles, hrumph, pipes is where it's at baby.

[runs back to the pipers forum]

StewySmoot · Post by **StewySmoot** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:18 pm

It is a matter of your interpretation with your instument. The whistle is what it is. You do what you can with it and take it wherever you want.

If you think you can reach higher levels with a flute, fine. You should have bought a flute to begin with and saved yourself some $$.

I have an Irish flute. It sounds great, I wish I could play it better. But I would rather play a whistle. Why? I dont know and I dont care.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:53 pm

Yeah, whistles are way better than Flutophones...well... y'know... I do like that bell on the Flutophone, but other than that.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:06 pm

It's hard to whip a flute out of your pocket and pick up women without looking a little pretentious

Unseen122 · Post by **Unseen122** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:17 pm

Ron Burgundy can do it.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:19 pm

Chiffed · Post by **Chiffed** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:30 pm

Remember the Shakuhachi (a WHISTLE). When Ronin wandered the countryside, without their Katana (swords), they could always whip out their Shakuhachi and beat the living snot out of music critics. Or something like that.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:45 pm

Chiffed wrote:Remember the Shakuhachi (a WHISTLE). When Ronin wandered the countryside, without their Katana (swords), they could always whip out their Shakuhachi and beat the living snot out of music critics. Or something like that.

It was a very in-your-face kind of faith.

ninjaaron · Post by **ninjaaron** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 9:22 pm

StewySmoot wrote:There are tunes that sound absolutely perfect on the whistle. That perfection needs to spring beyond the confines of ITM.

What, where am I. Your avatar always makes me forget what I was going to say.

Oh yeah:

The whistle seems like it's used in a lot of music besides ITM. Especially boring music for adults, but it seems to be leaking in to other genres as well. More and more all the time... My mom listlens to a really terrible christian radio station a lot, and there is whistle on a lot of the better songs on there. There are a few good songs... just not many.

But whistle does seem to be taking pop by storm, not to mention movie music. It's a real mood maker, which I guess is what I probably value most in music.

By the way, anyone ever notice how the sound of the whistle is always described as haunting by non-whistlers? (well, in the hands of a good player... I think we've all heard other adjectives, not to mention explitives, from those we habitate with)

I was talking to my mom about the rise in whistle popularity, and she said "well, I don't think it would take much to make it popular... It kinda wakes something up inside of you, like a primitive response to that sound".

Is it possible that the tin whistle holds the keys to the human soul?

This means that I need to buy more. Can't wait for my Mellow Dog to arrive.

ninjaaron · Post by **ninjaaron** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 9:25 pm

Chiffed wrote:Remember the Shakuhachi (a WHISTLE). When Ronin wandered the countryside, without their Katana (swords), they could always whip out their Shakuhachi and beat the living snot out of music critics. Or something like that.

I don't know that musicio-oligistcy people would exactly call a shakuhachi a whistle... there isn't really a fipple.

*coughendblownflutecough*

Chiffed · Post by **Chiffed** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 12:17 am

True, the ethno-organologists would quibble - 'end-blwn flute' is more correct.

Also, trying to bodge a fipple-block out of one's lower lip is a challenge if one has facial hair. Drool helps, but seems very un-Samurai. I just love the fact that shakuhachi double as an effective weapon, sort of like my Generation G.

Gotta love multitasking.

ninjaaron · Post by **ninjaaron** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:29 am

Chiffed wrote:True, the ethno-organologists would quibble - 'end-blwn flute' is more correct.

Also, trying to bodge a fipple-block out of one's lower lip is a challenge if one has facial hair. Drool helps, but seems very un-Samurai. I just love the fact that shakuhachi double as an effective weapon, sort of like my Generation G.

Gotta love multitasking.

I bet those keyless derin flutes could leave a nasty mark. (well the ones with keys would probably leave an even nastier one, but who would hit someone with a keyed flute?)