Welcome, Guest. Please Login
SLINGING.ORG
 
Home Help Search Login


Pages: 1 2 
Send Topic Print
Whistling (Read 4456 times)
bigkahuna
past-moderator
****
Offline



Posts: 3894
Delaware, USA
Gender: male
Re: Whistling
Reply #15 - Dec 4th, 2005 at 12:52am
 
Male cunning triumphs again! Grin Roll Eyes
Back to top
 

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
John Walker  
IP Logged
 
Gard
Senior Member
****
Offline


Yup, there are slingers
in Norway too!

Posts: 396
Norway
Gender: male
Re: Whistling
Reply #16 - Dec 4th, 2005 at 9:46am
 
Quote:
I have, over the years, developed my own technique of whistling tunes, non-stop and without needing pause to take a breath, in which I whistle in the traditional manner (with air being expelled outward) while alternating also to whistling by drawing air inward with the same 'pursed'-lip shape ("embouchure", if you will). My breathing is accomplished through my nose actually while I whistle. Perhaps this is a form of circular breathing; I am not sure. I only know that it is second nature for me now. I would note that traditional (outward airflow) whistling produces a louder whistle than my "inward airflow" form of whistling, and so I automatically compensate to even-out the volume by softening/reducing the volume produced while whistling in the traditional manner.


Can you explain how you do this?

Gard
Back to top
 

You never know what you might get to need, before you need it.
 
IP Logged
 
Matthias
Past Moderator
*
Offline



Posts: 1418
Gatineau/Ottawa QC, Canada
Gender: male
Re: Whistling
Reply #17 - Dec 4th, 2005 at 1:24pm
 
Doesn't everyone do this? It's amazing how many times in a given week it gets pointed out that I'm "unusual". Tongue

Whistling "in" is the same as whistling out, and I must use a slightly different embourchure as volume seems about the same both directions (correction: low notes are easier/louder an the outbreath, while high notes are either the same or slightly easier on intake). Once you have the whistling down all you need to do is breath through your nose at the same time. I find it easiest to just whistle on the way out and then draw a slow breath through my nose and whistle at the same time. This isn't really circular breathing, as there's no circle involved - just plain old regular breathing through your mouth and nose at the same time (while whistling Wink). Now, where's my didj - that will make me light headed for sure!

Matthias
Back to top
 
 
IP Logged
 
Willeke
Interfector Viris Spurii
Past Moderator
*****
Offline


Give me some string and
I know what to do.

Posts: 2072
Netherlands
Gender: female
Re: Whistling
Reply #18 - Dec 4th, 2005 at 2:35pm
 
I can do it too Matthias, but not well.
It would have helped if I could wistle well in the first place.

Do you use the kind of wistle in which you form a real small o with your lips? (That is the way I wistle.) Or the kind in which you keep your lips straight, as in smiling?

Willeke
Back to top
 

"Never underestimate what a simple person can do with clever tools, nor what a clever person can do with simple tools." - Ian Fieggen - Writer of A booklet on lanyards, PM for info - Member IGKT, Netherlands
Bad spellers of the world: untie!
WWW  
IP Logged
 
Gard
Senior Member
****
Offline


Yup, there are slingers
in Norway too!

Posts: 396
Norway
Gender: male
Re: Whistling
Reply #19 - Dec 4th, 2005 at 3:47pm
 
Oh I see. Just me and my English again, I just don't pick up some words... Undecided
If you put your lips forward, but not so much that it's uncomfortable, so that you'll look like a stupid duck, and then whistling inwards, you'll get a loud and clear sound.
My mom whistles with the hole a little to the left.
I can whistle very loud with a little help from my index finger and thumb on both hands. I put the four fingers together forming a small square about 6 mm big, and blow through that.

Gard
Back to top
 

You never know what you might get to need, before you need it.
 
IP Logged
 
Douglas_The_Black
Interfector Viris Spurii
*****
Offline


Hakkaa päälle!

Posts: 3491
Salineville Ohio
Gender: male
Re: Whistling
Reply #20 - Dec 4th, 2005 at 7:51pm
 
i am now dizzy i cant seem to whisle at all useing my fingers.
Back to top
 

i live in a maze of typo's&&&& popularity is for dolls a hero cannot be popular-Ralph Waldo Emerson&&&&DTB-master of the corny vest, and crappy carpet!
randelflagg22002  
IP Logged
 
Douglas_The_Black
Interfector Viris Spurii
*****
Offline


Hakkaa päälle!

Posts: 3491
Salineville Ohio
Gender: male
Re: Whistling
Reply #21 - Dec 6th, 2005 at 7:49pm
 
I can whistle in now! but i cant whistle out, then in. I must need practice 
Back to top
 

i live in a maze of typo's&&&& popularity is for dolls a hero cannot be popular-Ralph Waldo Emerson&&&&DTB-master of the corny vest, and crappy carpet!
randelflagg22002  
IP Logged
 
Douglas_The_Black
Interfector Viris Spurii
*****
Offline


Hakkaa päälle!

Posts: 3491
Salineville Ohio
Gender: male
Re: Whistling
Reply #22 - Dec 6th, 2005 at 9:04pm
 
i think it will remain your skill my friend. Im just not dedicated enough Smiley
Back to top
 

i live in a maze of typo's&&&& popularity is for dolls a hero cannot be popular-Ralph Waldo Emerson&&&&DTB-master of the corny vest, and crappy carpet!
randelflagg22002  
IP Logged
 
Matt_C
Funditor
****
Offline


Cruachan!!!

Posts: 736
Cheshire, England
Gender: male
Re: Whistling
Reply #23 - Dec 6th, 2005 at 9:26pm
 
Another death metal growler here. Sad But I do have quite a range!

I have that kind of spikey strikingly annoying whistle, I can't help it.
Back to top
 

The last time I saw a rainbow I threw my beard over it
 
IP Logged
 
Pages: 1 2 
Send Topic Print
(Moderators: Curious Aardvark, Bill Skinner, David Morningstar, Mauro Fiorentini, Rat Man, Chris, Masiakasaurus)