I’m a regular whistler and pop out a tune to myself when I’m out gallivanting. It’s a dying art. Any other whistlers in the house?
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Yes, though our dad always said that it wasn’t us whistling it was just us squeaking like a girl. Anyways we’ve whistled all throughout out childhood and into adult hood and became a girl so that’s cool ig lol
I was literally whistling while reading your post, haha! (Fire by Kasabian, if you wanna know.)
I never learned to whistle, but I find (can’t pinpoint why) that there can be “tasteful” and “tasteless” whistling. A colleague at my old job whistled on occasion and I hated it. But one of my current colleagues whistles often when he works and his whistling I find very calming.
I’ve tried to learn to whistle several times. I can’t do it.
Been whistlin’ since I had teeth. I’m always whistlin’ a tune.
I’ve never been able to whistle even after multiple learning tries over the years. I like to think that if I could, I’d probably be whistling a lot as I always have a tune stuck in my head.
Think of it as using the back of your mouth and your tongue to shoot a round jet of air through your lips. Usually takes a lot of fiddling around and trying slightly new positions before you can get a shadow of a note, but then you have something to hone into. Whistling different notes requires you to change how big the inside of your mouth is and how large the hole at the front is. The larger your mouth, the lower the resonant note, and the smaller your mouth the higher the note will resonate. Lower notes are easier to hit, but you can only go so low. There is no real limit to how high you can learn to go.
Since you helped the other guy, I wonder if you can help me with a different but related inability? I can whistle terrifically, but I’ve never been able to do the really loud one that some people use their fingers to do. My dad can do a killer finger whistle and I’ve always wanted to be able to do it, but alas, no amount of trying or YouTube video promises have made it possible for me.
No joke, I’ve never heard about the back of mouth / tongue portion before and just from a couple minutes of testing low notes with that I got a single time I’d almost charitably consider a whistle. Seriously thank you for the detailed information on what’s happening inside too!
I was like 23 or 24 when I first whistled, and I think the advice you were given would probably have done it for me, as well. Incredible, I’ve also never heard it described that way!
I do agree it seems like a dying art. People look at me weird when I whistle away to myself.
I whistle, I sing, I beat box. Try harder, world, you ain’t bringing me down.
I have a whistling comm if you would like to post in it.
Hey! I recall seeing a whistling community so I found it to link here. Then I saw your comment, but no link, so here it is. !whistling@piefed.social
I appreciate that, still haven’t learned the ! link that works everywhere.
All the time. I wish I could do it louder. Never could figure out how to “wolf whistle”
i can do it, but i don’t do it very often
I’ve had pet budgies for forever, so that’s just how I talk to them.
OoooEEE oooEEEoooo!
As a Whistler, I’m guessing that was Ennio Morricone’s theme from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.
OooEEEoooEEEooo Eooo Eooo Eooooo
Miku, miku…
I whistle pretty rarely but I use non-language vocalization all the time to help with learning or writing music
Love it! Sometimes I get the gym showers to myself, and the acoustics in there are great! Lots of jazz standards. Some classical. Some random noodling.
