If whistles were outlawed.......

preacher · Post by **preacher** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:58 pm

Oh and we haven't even discussed how fast out of the holster, I mean case one can draw (oops I mean unpack) their whistle

straycat82 · Post by **straycat82** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:11 pm

Well, one of my whistle cases does have a belt loop on it

Reach for the sky!

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:06 pm

Remember the NWA (National Whistle Association)? I'd love a shirt or bumper sticker that says "They can have my whistle when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers." Classy.

A-Musing · Post by **A-Musing** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:20 pm

Call me sentimental, but I'd rather bring a tear to someone's eye...by rendering a soulful "Danny Boy," than to...say...SHOOT THEM!!!
Does that make me a bleeding heart Liberal? Sigh....

preacher · Post by **preacher** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:28 pm

OK WyoBadger but which whistle will you be holding? which I think was my original question. As in "They can have my (Boisvert D, Burke D, Copeland C, Hoover B) when they pry it from my cold dead fingers"

walrii · Post by **walrii** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:54 pm

A-Musing wrote:Call me sentimental, but I'd rather bring a tear to someone's eye...by rendering a soulful "Danny Boy," than to...say...SHOOT THEM!!!

According to another thread, the two are roughly equivalent.

As for which whistle, there's no question in my mind. The Feadog.

Chiffed · Post by **Chiffed** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:47 pm

WyoBadger wrote:Remember the NWA (National Whistle Association)? I'd love a shirt or bumper sticker that says "They can have my whistle when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers." Classy.

Better to have a whistle and not need one, than to need a whistle and not have one.

Or, according to the NRA's Harmonica-player-laureate, "An armed society is a polite society". Applies better to my Burke A, though.

picardy third · Post by **picardy third** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:09 am

Ok. I'll answer the original question.

It would be my Overton low C, because I love that whistle. And it will be handy in clubbing off the guys coming to take it away.

P3

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:20 pm

I'd have to say my Hoover ski pole low G. Beautiful sound, unique, bright periwinkle. Too cool for words.

T

Dave Parkhurst · Post by **Dave Parkhurst** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:48 pm

If they outlawed whistles, Mack Hoover (aka Big Daddy Mack) would be doing a booming business running rum, fixing horse bets, and making whistles out of ski poles heisted from Big 5 Sporting Goods stores...

Thank the Lord I'm on his good side.

Dave

Mack.Hoover · Post by **Mack.Hoover** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:20 pm

preachers would get horns

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:11 pm

The only whistle I have right now is a water weasel in D. Nobody's taking that one away from me.

seisflutes · Post by **seisflutes** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:44 pm

My Sindt and Busman D's.

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:26 am

"Drop your whistles and come out of the vehicle".

Then I get up and start walking, slowly dropping a high D, then a low D stuck in my belt, then a low-G, a G minor native flute, low-e, another high-d (can't have too many). (Reminds me of the scene in the movie Sahara)

Then my wife picks up the basswhistle in the back of the truck and shoulder fires it at the cops. They're all overtaken by WhOA and stumble across the ground reaching for whistles.

The cops all become whistle players, end of story.

(Basswhistle = I know, it does look a potato gun)

preacher · Post by **preacher** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:12 pm

Good one, Mack.

But as much as I love horns it wouldn't substitute for whistes. Maybe someone would fin a way to disguise them like ski-poles or walking sticks - maybe even something else with other yet to be revealed material. You never know what some clever guy will come up with.