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On Joanie Madden's album Song of the Irish Whistle there's a track which has The Otter's Nest and Richie Dwyer's. It says it has high and low whistles as well as "air whistle". The sound is quite muted a little like playing a guitar while damping the strings. You can make out the melody though. Is this the air whistle and is it a train type whistle or a regular whistle that has been muted somehow? It sounds pretty cool whatever it is but I'm hoping someone knows what's creating that sound? -mike
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Miwokhill wrote:On Joanie Madden's album Song of the Irish Whistle there's a track which has The Otter's Nest and Richie Dwyer's. It says it has high and low whistles as well as "air whistle". The sound is quite muted a little like playing a guitar while damping the strings. You can make out the melody though. Is this the air whistle and is it a train type whistle or a regular whistle that has been muted somehow? It sounds pretty cool whatever it is but I'm hoping someone knows what's creating that sound? -mike
I think I read an interview where she said she took the whistle out of her mouth and just blew into it from afar, or something like that...
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I see... it does sound like that- thanks for the feedback Wanderer! -mike
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It sounded to me very much like playing a whistle as a fife, blowing across the windway.
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Hi,

I placed the whistle under my lower lip and blew down to create that sound. It was a process I found out while playing the whistle while I watched tv with the family - it didn't annoy them as much!

Good luck,
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ctladies wrote:Hi,

I placed the whistle under my lower lip and blew down to create that sound. It was a process I found out while playing the whistle while I watched tv with the family - it didn't annoy them as much!

Good luck,
Joanie Madden
Yeah, this really works well. I've played a whistle this way with my wife sleeping about 15 feet away and she never stirred. Great for apartment dwellers, dorm residents, etc.
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wow, isn't it cool that joanie looks in here every now and then! :)
Say joanie, a while ago you wrote, asking what we would like in your new album, have you decided?
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Wow. thanks! I'd wondered about that "air whistle" designation, too.
Have heard Paul mention that technique.
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emmline wrote:Wow. thanks! I'd wondered about that "air whistle" designation, too.
when i saw the thread title i pictured a bunch of drunk guys at a party jumping around and wiggling their fingers in front of their faces while listening to flook...
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rh wrote:
when i saw the thread title i pictured a bunch of drunk guys at a party jumping around and wiggling their fingers in front of their faces while listening to flook...
Well, yeah, ok...

But we all do that don't we? I mean...

we do, don't we?

......

...

Oh - is it just me then? :oops:
Tóg go bog é, dude.....

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wow is right! Thank you Joanie. -mike
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brewerpaul wrote:
ctladies wrote:Hi,

I placed the whistle under my lower lip and blew down to create that sound. It was a process I found out while playing the whistle while I watched tv with the family - it didn't annoy them as much!

Good luck,
Joanie Madden
Yeah, this really works well. I've played a whistle this way with my wife sleeping about 15 feet away and she never stirred. Great for apartment dwellers, dorm residents, etc.
Question for Paul, Joanie, or anyone else who knows:
That technique seems to require more than the usual amount of wind, and is largely inaudible...can you describe more precisely how the whistle is placed?
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I can't answer your question emmline but I thought that as well after trying out the technique. I wonder if the difference is that the almost inaudible whistle is miked to make it... audible? --mike
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emmline wrote:
brewerpaul wrote:
ctladies wrote:Hi,

I placed the whistle under my lower lip and blew down to create that sound. It was a process I found out while playing the whistle while I watched tv with the family - it didn't annoy them as much!

Good luck,
Joanie Madden
Yeah, this really works well. I've played a whistle this way with my wife sleeping about 15 feet away and she never stirred. Great for apartment dwellers, dorm residents, etc.
Question for Paul, Joanie, or anyone else who knows:
That technique seems to require more than the usual amount of wind, and is largely inaudible...can you describe more precisely how the whistle is placed?
Works great for me. Are you blowing 'down' enough? Kinda like you were fluting?
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Jay-eye wrote:
rh wrote:
when i saw the thread title i pictured a bunch of drunk guys at a party jumping around and wiggling their fingers in front of their faces while listening to flook...
Well, yeah, ok...

But we all do that don't we? I mean...

we do, don't we?

......

...

Oh - is it just me then? :oops:
This is the technique where I sound the best.

Tom
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