100 things to do wrong starting the whistle.

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:59 am

49. Slam your favorite, well-worn, well-loved, well-traveled clarke high D in the door of your truck. *sob*

50. Use your high G as an elk bugle. (not because it doesn't work, but because the temptation is too strong to play a tune when the day gets slow. Bull elk HATE Irish tunes, and barely tolerate Scottish ones)

51. Practice your high G while riding shotgun on a roadtrip with the Mrs.

(funny, you'd have thought that more of these would involve "high G." Sort of a mistake all its own, don't you think?)

Post by **benhall.1** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:25 pm

52. Start any list of 100 things.

jemtheflute · Post by **jemtheflute** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:01 pm

53. Become all bitter, twisted, cynical, old and tired without years of cyclical serious practice, frustration, despair, WHOAD........

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:15 am

54. Think you will sound like Joanie Madden or Mary Bergin in not time.

shatfield · Post by **shatfield** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:44 am

jemtheflute wrote:53. Become all bitter, twisted, cynical, old and tired without years of cyclical serious practice, frustration, despair, WHOAD........

What if you're like that before you start the whistle.....................

StarRider · Post by **StarRider** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:00 am

54.

Think you know everything better than people who've had years of experience!

toasterburn · Post by **toasterburn** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:57 am

55. insert it anywhere but your mouth

Feadoggie · Post by **Feadoggie** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:25 am

56. Thinking that the whistle would be a casual and inexpensive pastime.

First you buy whistles from most every maker in lots of keys... and then several lathes plus tooling, shelves of exotic wood, lots of delrin, aluminum, brass, PVC, CPVC, HDPE ....

You get the idea!

Feadoggie

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 2:09 am

HAHA HAHAHAHAHAH!!! !!!

Love this thread!

Whata we up to .. 57???

57. Believe you KNOW what the whistler on your Chieftains (or - insert your favorite artist here) record is doing! (listen again every year - you will find something new!!)

58. Think that all whistles are the same. none of them are

59. Expect a more expensive whitstle to make you play better .. It may make you sound better, but the hard yards are still yours.

60 Make the mistake that a Gen is all you will ever need. (not my opinion - go look at any accomplished player's kit).

61 Make the mistake that your Gen will never get used again

62. Assume that the good playing you hear is due to special FX in the recording. Get a life - it's the player that makes that sound! The engineer will do the best he can, but he's no substitute for a good musician. (challenge me on this and loose)

63. Play for money. No Musician I know actually plays for money. I grant that some are good businessmen/women, BUT music is never for money - it is for expression. If you play - you express - I defy any human, who is not a psychopath, to not be moved if you are playing your heart's expression - the principal of patronage is immensely stronger than the principal of profit. Express! and be payed to be a human, by those who love you as a human. It IS natual law and our whistle is the next best thing to our own voice and face.

64. Accept payment when it comes. It is an expression of honor - are you devoid of honor?

65. Play in a vacuum ..Take up your whistle, play, and open your senses ..what are the birds doing .. the lizards, the insects?? It takes a little mastery to play this way - the tune you can play in your sleep .. play it .. listen and enjoy what you are playing .. obseve and listen to how your expression radiates through your environment. Observe how the humans respond - observe how the birds respond.. The domestic diputes calm - the pause in birdcall .. then wait for the response - listen as you solve your own environment and the birds take your message across the country. It's a no-brainer we've been blinded from for too many years

You were not called for this for nothing!

66. Think a whistle is a simple object. A whistle is our modern "reed" Go google the middle eastern understanding of the reed's gruief to become music through death. Our expression through tune and song. Palfrey to you, but the song is the blood of the universe - Open your heart and sing - play your whistle and be unafraid. The whole universe is listenning to YOU!. And you are the difference bwetween the universe .. and nothing.

67,. Be afraid. You have picked up a whistle because you are finshed with fear. Don't forget that! Play

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 2:31 am

Mitch wrote:64. Accept payment when it comes. It is an expression of honor - are you devoid of honor?

Shouldn't that be: [it's a mistake to] "Not accept payment ..."?

packie · Post by **packie** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:18 am

68. Fail to blow the 2nd octave hard enough.

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:23 am

packie wrote:68. Fail to blow the 2nd octave hard enough.

69. Blowing to hard for the first octave, and fliping to second octave then woundering what is wrong with the whistle.

Shelp · Post by **Shelp** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 3:05 pm

70. Assume it is inferior to the flute!.....

narrowdog · Post by **narrowdog** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:05 pm

71 thinking whistle monogamy is a good idea........the frustration will kill you

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:02 pm

Shelp wrote:70. Assume it is inferior to the flute!.....

It is realy not , is it.................

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