Does everyone look ridiculous when they play the whistle?

Or is it only me? :confused: :blush: :stuck_out_tongue:
Look here:
http://groups.msn.com/Susiscorner/susispics.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=75

Yes, everyone does. I’d post pictures but the Rocky Mountain Boys would come after me. :stuck_out_tongue:

I do. I look a whole lot more ridiculus when I play Pipes though (talking GHBs here) my face is all contorted and I look like a freak I don’t have any pics up on the computer. I also look ridiculus playing the third octave on Bassoon according to the Bass Clainet player in my school band I look all red and ugly and fat alright it was a lot funnier if you were there. :smiley:

Some of us look ridiculous playing anything. LOL!.. I used to find an ā€œinterestingā€ photo of me on the front page of whatever local paper, with the strangest expression on my face… happened several times… I’ve just decided that it’s life… and I’m usually funny lookin’. 8^)

I practice in front of a mirror just to make sure I look cool. If you throw in some extremely painful looks during a slow air, people will comment on how passionate you are about your music! :smiley:

This lad looks as if he plays a wicked whistle. You just know from looking at him that his tunes have that jaunty expression to them. Blut, alas, it looks as if he’s playing a WALTON? Or could it be a Feadog?

Will O’Ban

I take it you’ve never seen Andrea Corrs… :stuck_out_tongue:

Is he really playing ā€œwrong hand 'roundā€ or was the picture flopped?

But ā€œjauntyā€ is right, whatever the whistle.

M

Now now do you have a problem with ā€œwrong hand 'roundā€ :wink:

NO. I look ridiculous all the time.

All in the mind…especially when sharing a stage with a bari saxophone when even my Copeland Low D is ā€œsmall beerā€!

Trisha

Never me!

I saw Seamus Egan in concert once, playing flute ā€œnormallyā€ (left hand closest to the face) and a low whistle ā€œwrong hand 'round.ā€

I’m afraid my brain would short-circuit if I tried that. :smiley:

M

I don’t care what hands I use as well as it works well and sounds good…

Unless you practice before a mirror (like that skinny chick, I bet), it typically looks like one is sucking on a lemon.

No matter how you look at it, I believe his right hand (or wrong hand) is actually on top.

Will O’Ban

Oh, you, too?

Ennis Traveler, let me be the first to tell you that you don’t look ridiculous. You look like a whistler. :smiley: Not a bad photo at all.

I think it’s just that we don’t look at ourselves so very often, especially not when we’re doing something as intimate and revealing as playing whistle. (At least I don’t.)

For contrast, just have someone take a picture of you eating. That’s always worse. I’ve heard no one is allowed to photograph the queen eating.

Jennie

:smiley: Oh. That’s good. Noone’s allowed to photograph me eating either. They just don’t get punished for it.

Probably just as well…

Would you want to open your morning paper only to see such a photograph…please. :boggle:


Slan,
D.

-Paul had it right: Andrea Corr looks fetching rather than ridiculous when playing whistle, as she does doing nearly anything imaginable in my sedate, limited, non-scandalous and pc imagination. :smiley: