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02-28-2006, 01:14 AM
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It's kind of sad to be a virtuoso whistler, because, by and large, whistling all sounds the same. There is a certain nuance, but in a blind listening test you could listen to 6 amazing whistlers and tonally, they'd all sound very similar. What's more, I personally can whistle, tonally, as well as the top whistlers in the world. I may not have their depth of control, but the sound is the same. It is a harsh mistress the whistling game.
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02-28-2006, 02:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis, MO, U.S. | | | Maybe tone is the untapped next frontier of whistling. It's up to us to explore it!
It really is a difficult thing, since changing the shape of your mouth changes the pitch. Maybe it's all in the embouchure. At least I've always got my mouth trumpet skills to fall back on if I fail to wow the masses by whistling. Mouth trumpet is always a hit.
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02-28-2006, 03:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Valencia, CA 91354 | | | The timbre of whistling doesn't exactly lend itself to tonal manipulation. Doesn't it produce a sine wave?
Now, if you could hum or grunt two octaves below what you're whistling, that would be amazing. The next step would be Roland Kirk-style independent melodies!
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02-28-2006, 03:19 AM
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02-28-2006, 03:22 AM
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02-28-2006, 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Peter McFerrin The timbre of whistling doesn't exactly lend itself to tonal manipulation. Doesn't it produce a sine wave? | Pretty close to a pure sine wave. Though, every sound is comprised of sine waves. Even burps.  |
02-28-2006, 09:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Scottsdale, AZ | | I can't whistle for the life of me -- When I try, I get more of this effect  than any angelic chorus rending my lips asunder |
02-28-2006, 09:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Houston, TX | | I can't whistle either. It's really annoying when I want to call a dog... or whistle at some chick out a car window. ->  |
02-28-2006, 11:21 AM
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02-28-2006, 11:26 AM
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02-28-2006, 02:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Valencia, CA 91354 | | | I burp perfect sawtooths, SuperDuck. Once I belched in public and some guy tried to grab me and sell me on eBay as a dead-mint 1973 Minimoog.
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02-28-2006, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Peter McFerrin Now, if you could hum or grunt two octaves below what you're whistling, that would be amazing. The next step would be Roland Kirk-style independent melodies! | Hey, I can do that too! I can't burp a sawtooth though. 
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02-28-2006, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Peter McFerrin I burp perfect sawtooths, SuperDuck. Once I belched in public and some guy tried to grab me and sell me on eBay as a dead-mint 1973 Minimoog. | One can only imagine what your other bodily functions sound like. |
02-28-2006, 04:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Valencia, CA 91354 | | | I'm going to make an album consisting entirely of processed versions of fart noises you make by buzzing your lips on your hands or your forearm. Dominique Leone will review it on Pitchfork and give it an 8.5.
Just you wait, kids. Just you wait.
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02-28-2006, 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by SuperDuck Pretty close to a pure sine wave. Though, every sound is comprised of sine waves. Even burps. |
there's only so much you can do with just ONE (or nearly one) sine wave, though.  |
02-28-2006, 06:56 PM
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I wonder why Bobby McFerrin wasn't on Bjork's Medulla. Of all the people you'd expect to be on an album constructed almost entirely from the human voice, it'd be the guy who basically pioneered that method of music-making.
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03-01-2006, 04:29 AM
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03-01-2006, 04:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Peter McFerrin Germane to the topic at hand:
I wonder why Bobby McFerrin wasn't on Bjork's Medulla. Of all the people you'd expect to be on an album constructed almost entirely from the human voice, it'd be the guy who basically pioneered that method of music-making. | Well - only from a very limited US-centric perspective... 
Acapella vocal music has been the basis of so many musical cultures from PlainSong to African Rhythmic chants etc. etc. 
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03-01-2006, 06:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield Well - only from a very limited US-centric perspective...
Acapella vocal music has been the basis of so many musical cultures from PlainSong to African Rhythmic chants etc. etc. | ...all the way to rockapella.  |
03-01-2006, 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Brad Barker ...all the way to rockapella. | Just where in the world is that Carmen Sandiego anyways? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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