Whistlers have posted 74900 times and fluters only 6832 times.???
I think there are two fairly straightforward factors involved:
Best,
Chris
[ This Message was edited by: ChrisLaughlin on 2003-01-20 23:21 ]
Very true, Chris. All frivolous posters should be bann… ahhhhh!
Chris- You make a point I hadn’t considered- about the level of expertise of flute players as opposed to whistlers.Though I hope the whistlers don’t feel slighted. I pick up a whistle when my hands cramp from the flute or my embouchure steps out for a trip to the chiropractor.
Erik- I don’t think there’s any shortage of frivolity around here. People seem to use a lot of it{thankfully}.
Best,
Bruce
Yeah, um… ignore the fact that 60% of all frivelous posts are mine, or BAN!!!
Chris
The world needs more frivoloty!!Hey. Not being able to go to sessions, who gets thrown out more often.Flute players or whistlers?The whistler forum is definitly a lighthearted bunch.
I think it’s because women almost equal, or maybe out-number the men on the whistle board. Wouldn’t that alone explain it…Whistlers from Venus? Even if there were only 25 women to 75 men, that would still explain it…generating 50,000 posts right there (sorry…I guess it’s all my sisters)
Fluters - well, it takes more breath to play a flute than a tuba…they’re to busy catching their breath to talk alot.
And the uilleann pipers?? Now there’s a group with such a difficult instrument, the more they try to conquer the octupus, the more it renders them useless, cranky, and speechless! You may have noticed that some of them seem puzzled at good humor?
Apart from whistle specific matters/ questions,I tend to use the whistle forum for OT subjects and friviolity.I tend to put my more ‘serious’ head on for the flute and Irish music forums.
Sometimes I think it’s easy to not see the forest for the trees.
I think the primary reason we don’t have as many flutists posting is that Chiff and Fipple is known primarily as a whistle site; the vast majority of online Irish flutists probably have no idea this board even exists.
Something I think it’s easy to overlook as well is that very likely the vast majority of whistlers who have Internet capability also have no idea this site or board is here.
Best,
–James
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Whistlers are light-hearted
extroverts; flutists taciturn
introverts; low D whistle players
are in transition (bi-polar, often).
Those who play
both high whistles and flutes
are schizoid.
On 2003-01-21 10:40, jim stone wrote:
Those who play
both high whistles and flutes
are schizoid.
I guess that makes me Twenty-first Century Schitzoid Man. (that was just such a good setup, I couldn’t resist)
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
I’m schizophrenic
And so am I!
I consulted the others in my group, which was a meeting of one. The bodhran player wanted whistle players to learn the tunes, the whistle player threatened the bodhran player, and they both went after the flute player for spraying everyone with ambient lung fluid.
There was no concensus on how to address the question of this post and why whistlers have the need to talk to each other and flute players don’t.
Hey you back off on that bodhran will ya! I’m trying to post.
MarkB
On 2003-01-21 10:40, jim stone wrote:
Whistlers are light-hearted
extroverts; flutists taciturn
introverts; low D whistle players
are in transition (bi-polar, often).
Those who play
both high whistles and flutes
are schizoid.
Right Jim, where does that place the Uilleann Pipers then?
Words fail me.
Those who play the Alien Pipes travel in another dimension.
N, of hyperspace