Comments on: Ever wish you could whistle better? http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2006/03/09/ever-wish-you-could-whistle-better/ Roger Bourland writes about music and life Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:35:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Roger Bourland http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2006/03/09/ever-wish-you-could-whistle-better/#comment-261 Roger Bourland Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:01:34 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2006/03/09/ever-wish-you-could-whistle-better/#comment-261 I never thought of whistling as an instrument. I know what lips are like filters for the voice, and help shape the tone of the speaking voice, and in whistling, along with the tongue, they are pitch changers. I'm a pretty good whistler, but never had one of those shrill whistles that carry a great distance. I never thought of whistling as an instrument. I know what lips are like filters for the voice, and help shape the tone of the speaking voice, and in whistling, along with the tongue, they are pitch changers.

I’m a pretty good whistler, but never had one of those shrill whistles that carry a great distance.

]]> By: Brad Wood http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2006/03/09/ever-wish-you-could-whistle-better/#comment-260 Brad Wood Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:17:27 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2006/03/09/ever-wish-you-could-whistle-better/#comment-260 Whistling is wonderful. I have always been pretty good at it, although it is "a small instrument" as they say ;-o. On rare occasions when I would play one or another instrument in front of an ex-friend/composer, if it wasn't totally wretched he would usually say "You've been practicing!" But the only time he didn't was when I would be whistling along with something---I guess with the implication that you didn't practice whistling. Whistling is wonderful. I have always been pretty good at it, although it is “a small instrument” as they say ;-o.

On rare occasions when I would play one or another instrument in front of an ex-friend/composer, if it wasn’t totally wretched he would usually say “You’ve been practicing!” But the only time he didn’t was when I would be whistling along with something—I guess with the implication that you didn’t practice whistling.

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