Whistleless whistling

miffle · Post by **miffle** » Thu May 05, 2005 8:23 am

When I find myself without my instrument but with a tune running through my head, I usually whistle it. Frequently, I will whistle (by mouth) variations and ornamentations before I try them on the whistle.

How common is this occurrence among us?

--miffle

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:34 am

Sometimes I will whistle a tune by mouth that I have heard many times.
But I am unable to look at written music and whistle that by mouth.
So the only way I can learn a new tune is to hear it first.

tin tin · Post by **tin tin** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:59 am

I lilt tunes in my head frequently, and I have a habit of "playing" pens at work.

Kingfisher · Post by **Kingfisher** » Thu May 05, 2005 10:27 am

I guess , looking at the poll , that this is relatively common. What you are doing pretty well describes my own experiences. I get a tune "running around" in my head. I'll just start whistling it ... either by mouth or with the first whistle I can lay my hands on !!

Have a Great Day and Fun Whistling !!

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:00 am

I wonder how wide a range is possible or common with just mouth whistling?

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:21 am

Someone once posted here that you haven't learned a tune until you can whistle it. So sometimes when I'm trying to learn a tune I try to learn to whistle it.

Crysania · Post by **Crysania** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:44 am

I'm with Tintin...I lilt tunes a lot (Eileen Oge/Pride of Petravore has been stuck in my head for DAYS) and subject my pens to fingering through the tunes as well...sometimes without even realzing what I'm doing.

I used to do that a lot when I played clarinet...works a lot better for whistle since I don't have to hit imaginery keys...

~Crysania

ChrisA · Post by **ChrisA** » Thu May 05, 2005 12:38 pm

I'm with the lilters.

I've tried whistling tunes a couple of times, but I just don't have the
range and accuracy I need for mouth-whistling tunes. Lilting, on the other hand, is something
I do both deliberately when trying to get my mind around a tune and unconsciously when
a tune is running around in my head.

Dum diddle dee diddle dye diddle day doo diddle dee diddle day diddle dum...

happyturkeyman · Post by **happyturkeyman** » Thu May 05, 2005 4:43 pm

AAAARRRRGHHHH

I wish so badly that I could whistle!

Oh, and I do the ballpoint pen fake whistle thing, too. sometimes a rolled up piece of paper as well.

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Thu May 05, 2005 6:29 pm

I also whistle tunes I am trying to learn. I often whistle along with a CD or the radio if it is a tune I like and would like to learn.

Ron

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Fri May 06, 2005 3:55 pm

When my repertoire I feel I should grow,
I pucker my lips and I blow.
It's toots from the labium,
cram tunes in my cranium.
Later whistling, the tune I will know.

feadogin · Post by **feadogin** » Fri May 06, 2005 10:39 pm

ChrisA wrote:I'm with the lilters. I've tried whistling tunes a couple of times, but I just don't have the
range and accuracy I need for mouth-whistling tunes. Lilting, on the other hand, is something
I do both deliberately when trying to get my mind around a tune and unconsciously when
a tune is running around in my head.

Dum diddle dee diddle dye diddle day doo diddle dee diddle day diddle dum...

Ditto here.

J.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sat May 07, 2005 2:26 pm

I couldn't mouth whistle until I was in the third grade. I remember working on the skill on the schoolbus--"Go Down Moses," I think it was...
I still got it wrong though. To this day I can only whistle by sucking in, not by blowing out. I rarely do it.

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