Dude,wheres my whistles.

Phil Hardy · Post by **Phil Hardy** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:51 pm

I just struck me that all this whistling is just so much fun,I have been doin' this whistley stuff for more than 25 years and I still love it,is there anything else that can keep you so involved for so long?
Dude,wheres my whistles ,I feel like playing another toon.
If ya feel like whistlin' say yeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!
This is gonna be a great year and don't forget the Mesquer festival dudes & dudettes!
Phil
ps can't put down the MK..................!

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:55 pm

Yeah-- whistling is majorly terrific. What other instrument can give so much pleasure for such a short learning curve (at least initially) and for such a small outlay of money? The basics are so easy to learn, but you'll never completely "master" the whistle-- there's always something new to learn, some new type of music to try on the whistle.

Unseen122 · Post by **Unseen122** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:57 pm

I got to say, I like playing Flute more.

Phil Hardy · Post by **Phil Hardy** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:08 pm

Hey Unseen are you in the wrong section?
Phil.

riverman · Post by **riverman** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:27 pm

Actually, flutes seem to be more of a solo instrument, according to CDs I buy of Irish music. Beautiful, mellow tone. However, even though the whistle doesn't seem to get the same respect, I love the brightness of the whistle. It made me sit up like a dog ever since I first heard it. I have known flute music forever, but that whistle...
That's why I bought my first whistle after being out of music since my first piano lessons as a boy (and yes, they WERE picking baseball teams right at the time I had to practice)!
The brightness of whistle music rips my heart out and leaves it lying at my feet!

Unseen122 · Post by **Unseen122** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:57 pm

Phil Hardy wrote:Hey Unseen are you in the wrong section?
Phil.

As long as I'm not in the dreaded Piper's fourm.

I didn't mean that I don't love the Whistle I just meant that I like Flute more.

Screeeech!!! · Post by **Screeeech!!!** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:37 pm

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!

But i'll have to wait till morning cause the neighbours might get a tad miffed if i started now.

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:16 pm

Screeeech!!! wrote:yeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!

But i'll have to wait till morning cause the neighbours might get a tad miffed if i started now.

Neighbors? Don't need no stinking neighbors. I say play away!!!!

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:31 pm

Screeeech!!! wrote:yeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!

But i'll have to wait till morning cause the neighbours might get a tad miffed if i started now.

Huzzah!

For me it would be the co-workers getting miffed, I'd probably wake them up.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:34 pm

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!

But i'll have to wait till morning cause the neighbours might get a tad miffed if i started now.

This has been a good year for me whistle-wise... I've now more than doubled my tune list, and am getting ready for my second Tionól. Regular sessions and a good slow-downer program have helped that a lot! Not too bad for waiting 20 some years to take it seriously.

Luckily, our nearest neighbors are still a half mile away... (at least till the new ones get their house completed...

) ... so...

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!

alespa · Post by **alespa** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:23 pm

This has been a good year for me and the whistle. Actually, it's been the only year, and moving on a year and a half . . . it's been exciting, and I see guys like Phil playing like it's second nature, and think about how much longer they've been up to it, and it encourages me . . . thanks!

pjuuldk · Post by **pjuuldk** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:30 am

Hi. As a man who counts his whistle experience in weeks insted of years I will say that this is a great and fasinaiting (sorry for my english

) little instrument and I think that this will be a great musical year.

An other good sign is that while reading through this thread the fhone was ringing with a joboffer

. So the world is sertenly looking brighter, and it is not just the new fallen snow.

Peter Juul

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:05 am

alespa wrote:This has been a good year for me and the whistle. Actually, it's been the only year, and moving on a year and a half . . . it's been exciting, and I see guys like Phil playing like it's second nature, and think about how much longer they've been up to it, and it encourages me . . . thanks!

Alespa, I *finally* have figured out your avatar! An eyebrow raising poochie... not a weirdly warped toad plastered on someone's head at all.

... I need new glasses!

edited to add...

... and now you've changed it?!?! (and to correct my spelling)

brianormond · Post by **brianormond** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:17 pm

-Indeed a whistle is a fine accent to the human life. Melodic, intriguing
sometimes sweet and sometimes not- with a song which gets prettier the more its played, never losing mystery, promise or vitality.

Phil Hardy · Post by **Phil Hardy** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:31 pm

...now I can't stop playing the Sindt!
Oh...and I just had some great noos.
P

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Dude,wheres my whistles.

Dude,wheres my whistles.

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