Bb whistles

[Sandy_McLeod]

@riverman

@houstonwhistler

I think also that people who find the high D whistle too shrill at the upper end of the range for their tastes mind find a Bb, or even a C for that matter, easier on the ears. While they’re only tuned a step and a half or a step lower respectively, they have a deeper, more flutelike quality. The shrillness is gone on the upper end.

I am kind of split on this. Sometimes I play the D long enough, and wear myself out with the high notes. Then I switch to the Bb, and feel like, “ahhhhhhhh!” Sometimes I pick up the Bb first and think, “Boring!” Then I go right to the D. Both of these things happen in me.

Perhaps I need medication.

Hmmmmmmmmm. Perhaps.

[khl]

Here’s a must-read (or better yet listen) from NPR about Bflat:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7442915

[Walden]

@khl

Here’s a must-read (or better yet listen) from NPR about Bflat:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7442915

That is weird.

[Swain]

@riverman

I am kind of split on this. Sometimes I play the D long enough, and wear myself out with the high notes. Then I switch to the Bb, and feel like, “ahhhhhhhh!” Sometimes I pick up the Bb first and think, “Boring!” Then I go right to the D. Both of these things happen in me.

Perhaps I need medication.

Haha, same exact thing happens to me sometimes.
Though, I’m already on multiple medications.