Where are some of the strange places you play your whistle?

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:25 pm

I've taken to playing while I pump gas. I drive around a lot for work and it's a nice break.

rebl_rn · Post by **rebl_rn** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:29 pm

Not too many strange places for me. The strangest I can think of is in the parking lot tailgating before a NASCAR race.

pastorkeith · Post by **pastorkeith** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:33 pm

Halloween a few years back - played outside by pumpkin candle light while waiting to pass out candy.
pastorkeith

Tim2723 · Post by **Tim2723** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:41 pm

Molly Malone's Pub in Hanover NJ is a pretty strange place I play in.

synecdoche · Post by **synecdoche** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:48 pm

I played on the Seattle ferry once, when it wasn't too busy. Actually the reverb was fantastic because I was sitting in a sort of enclosed observation area. I had really never played in public before that.

pollyannapix · Post by **pollyannapix** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:00 pm

I know I shouldn't, but I play at stoplights. I get some might weird looks. And in my work parking lot every morning if I'm early, as well as several "weird" pubs and bars!

breqwas · Post by **breqwas** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:52 pm

Abandoned 19th century catacombs near Moscow, which were a limestone quarry before. That place is really abandoned, only those who know where the entrance is (and who are ready to crawl in the mud to enter) visit it sometimes. I love that place, and love playing whistle there.

...imagine yourself visiting a cave of that sort. Imagine you hear some sad tune from the darkness of labyrinth. You go there, trying to find the source of the sound, and after some wandering in these passages and grottos see <i>someone</i> in grey clothes and hood hiding the face, sitting on the stones without any light and playing some-sort-of-flute...

Well, it took some time before these two guys who met me there became certain that I'm not a ghost of some sort :)

BTW, I was playing Carolan's Welcome that time, and it fit the situation perfectly. What other tunes will you recommend for such cases? :)

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:58 pm

That would be too cool breqwa. My suggestion: People are Strange by The Doors. I don't play ITM.

pollyannapix · Post by **pollyannapix** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:59 pm

breqwas, that sounds like a beautiful (and wonderfully strange) place to whistle! And I think I would have been quite scared the daylights out of if I had been one of those two guys!

breqwas · Post by **breqwas** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:28 pm

Two more weird places where I played whistle.

The roof of Moscow State University main building (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:5231 ... g">here</a>, that's the tallest of seven so-called "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sist ... ">Stalin's Skyscrapers</a>") - I was at the top of one of these small towers on sides of the building. Sunset is beatiful when watched from there.

The bridge above Moskva river - <a href="http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Изображени ... g">this</a> one. Another pic <a href="http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Изображени ... g">here</a> - do you see that small metal cage under some red thingy? I don't know what is it for, but I think it is perfect place to meet the sunrise with some happy whistling :)

And - yes, I wasn't supposed to be in both of these places, it took some climbing and could cause problems with police. But that was something that is worth the risk, I think.

OBrien · Post by **OBrien** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:28 pm

Here's me playing in an abondoned railway tunnel:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pzu835o2i7k

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:14 pm

I have played at the Mall of the Mainland while my wife went shopping. Great reverb and echo there. Also saw a look on my wifes face that was new.

Whistle of choice there was the Overton bass Bb. Played a diy soprano D in the hardware store, and when shoppers came from the back they had thought it was from a cd player.

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:25 pm

I have this huge hallway in the building where my workshop is and I love the acoustics of that hallway - I call it the "Whistle Testing Chamber".

WhistlingArmadillo · Post by **WhistlingArmadillo** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:47 am

The "D&I" shack at work -- a roughly 30 x 30 ft building that has to be away from magnetic interference. It has a sloped half-cathedral ceiling with the entire large wall a window facing out into the woods. Wonderful reverb, and I can watch the banana spiders that like to spin their webs on the outside of the window.

Pyroh · Post by **Pyroh** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:57 am

Lol, that´s really great, bregwas

It´s nice when you can find such places.

I don´t play in some overly weird places, but two came to my mind - one is in one park - it´s a grand park, dark, sometimes scary, many squirrels live in it etc. And when I´m jamming with someone acoustically, we always go there, and some people, when they see me, they already know there´ll be some playing.

And second one...it was only once - my grandma wanted to hear me play, we were on countryside...so we went into the forest, and I sat and played - it was really beautiful, to play, while red, green, brown leaves were falling (it was autumn) - my grandma told me it was one of most powerful events she experienced in last ten years. But it´s difficult to describe the atmosphere in words - that total peace and calm in the forest, only leaves falling and whistle playing.