Tech: Learning to whistle (Not Tin)

Subject: Tech: Learning to whistle (Not Tin)
From: DonMeixner
Date: 30 Dec 04 - 10:33 AM

I would like to expand my whistling ability. Are there excercises similar to vocal exercises that will give you a broader whistling range?

Don

Subject: RE: Tech: Learning to whistle (Not Tin)
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 30 Dec 04 - 10:51 PM

Before some Bogey/Bacall fan chimes in:
You just put your lips together and BLOW...


Happy New Year Don.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Tech: Learning to whistle (Not Tin)
From: DonMeixner
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 12:13 AM

You too Seamus, have a great New Year.

Subject: RE: Tech: Learning to whistle (Not Tin)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 12:53 AM

I used to whistle a lot, then I had braces for two years. I couldn't whistle at all with braces on, and now that they're off I find it extremely difficult to whistle. I can't get much volume at all, and I apparently haven't mapped the sounds in my head to replace where they were with my teeth out of perfect alignment. It just doesn't work very well.

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: Learning to whistle (Not Tin)
From: GUEST,Steve Parkes at 'ome
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 01:48 PM

Your lips make the whistle, but your tongue gives the pitch. Try adding a little vibrato by varying the pitch slightly as you go along ... you'll have to practise the tongue-twitching, but it's worththe effort.

Steve

Subject: RE: Tech: Learning to whistle (Not Tin)
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 02:38 PM

Take a deep breath, as if you were sucking air in through a straw. Then whistle out, trying to keep that same feeling of a strong jet of air coming from way down.

I got this tip from a person with a Ph D in choral music. It helps with singing, too.
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I've made an interesting discovery this month. In choir, the subject of front vowels came up. These are vowels where you make one sound in the back in the mouth while rounding the lips. For example, German ue is long e at the back of the mouth while the lips are rounded. I discovered that if I said ee and rounded my lips to the max, I started whistling.

This might be a way to show someone who has never managed to whistle how to do it.