Wow, a whistle that reaches down to the feet! Must be a lowlowlow F or something…
Jens
Just so I can be sure, this photo isn’t Dale Wisely. Right??
On 2002-02-11 07:58, jbarter wrote:
Just so I can be sure, this photo isn’t Dale Wisely. Right??
Nah, couldn’t be, da’ kid’s got more 'air on 'is 'ead.
(BTW this comment tis from da guy who’s deary daughters correct 'im w’it… “It not grey any more, poppy, try white.”)
Greg, cute pic, Is there an elf costume in the making so he can accompany you to the RenFest next year?
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Enjoy Your Music,
Lee Marsh
[ This Message was edited by: LeeMarsh on 2002-02-11 12:17 ]
Thats awfully cute Greg Thanks for sharing.
- David
Lee:
I don’t know about a costume yet…I didn’t get him one last year, because I didn’t want to spend a lot of dough on something he’d only wear one day, and then it’d be discarded. I may feel the same way this year, but we could probably come up with a cheapo felt tunic and cap made for under $10, and that might be ok
General background on this pic: My boy always hunts me down whenever he hears me playing..I can be barely breathing into my hoover or laughing whistle, and be barely able to hear it myself, and he’ll hear it two rooms away and start looking. Whenever he gets where I’m at, he’ll steal my ‘spare’ whistle (that I bring just for him), and sit at my feet and ‘play’…Sometimes for as long as 20 minutes before his attention span is spent.
He knows which end is which on the whistle, and will always turn it around so he can blow into the mouthpiece and make a sound..which makes him smarter than me, some mornings!
I’ve got another pic of him ‘playing’ my chieftain low D in my computer room, maybe I’ll post it later. Glad you guys thought it was as cute as I did!
Greg
great pic, it lets us know the music won’t die out with us old farts
Picture caption: “Wait till I show dad the chops I’ve learned today!”
God bless, Tom
Can that be one of my C&F babies? Donovan…already whistling?? Gm
Is that the piper’s grip he’s using? 
Nice picture–thanks!
God bless–
Tom
must be cause he still listens to them celtic lullabies at night when he goes to bed 
On 2002-02-12 08:31, Grannymouse wrote:
Can that be one of my C&F babies? Donovan…already whistling?? Gm
Sorry to say this about the charming
photo. We’ve had people write the
board in the past describing nasty
accidents where a small child fell
with a whistle in her mouth. I don’t
know if the safety issue applies
here but you might want to keep
it in mind. Best
Thanks so much for the picture. I needed a smile.
mary
On 2002-02-12 08:31, Grannymouse wrote:
Can that be one of my C&F babies? Donovan…already whistling?? Gm
What! So you can spoil another C&F kid rotten? LOL!
Let it shine! Anna “Dances with Weasels” Martinez
[ This Message was edited by: Anna Martinez on 2002-02-13 13:45 ]
On 2002-02-12 09:48, jim stone wrote:
Sorry to say this about the charming
photo. We’ve had people write the
board in the past describing nasty
accidents where a small child fell
with a whistle in her mouth. I don’t
know if the safety issue applies
here but you might want to keep
it in mind. Best
Nonsence babies have been running though the house with scissors, since time immemorial. Do keep an eye on the tyke though, he looks verry serious about all this nonsence
WW and anyone else – When did your babies/toddlers start getting the hang of blowing into the whistles?
I had gotten Gen F and G whistles and a little ocarina by the time our little one was born. She’s 8 months now, but still won’t blow into them. She loves the whistle, but just kind of chatters into it whenever I give one to her. So I got her a kazoo last weekend, and she’s doing pretty well with it (ie, getting sound out of it) as she is with the baby xylophone, electric keyboard, and, pardon the expression, bodhran. Maybe she’s just a born percussoid.
Charlie
He didn’t get the hang of blowing into the whistle into nearly a year old…he did it a couple times by accident before then, but mostly just wanted to suck/teethe on them. At about a year old, I started really trying to show him how to blow into it, by making a huffing raspberry sound with my lips (imagine didgeridoo), and when he started repeating that, I started doing it on the whistle..once he realized it was his breath that caused the whistle to squeak, he didn’t need to raspberry any more. I encouraged his sound-making by making funny faces and acting all shocked and startled every time he made a noise with the whistle, which cracked him up and served as good positive reinforcement.
On 2002-02-13 21:48, chas wrote:
WW and anyone else – When did your babies/toddlers start getting the hang of blowing into the whistles?I had gotten Gen F and G whistles and a little ocarina by the time our little one was born. She’s 8 months now, but still won’t blow into them. She loves the whistle, but just kind of chatters into it whenever I give one to her. So I got her a kazoo last weekend, and she’s doing pretty well with it (ie, getting sound out of it) as she is with the baby xylophone, electric keyboard, and, pardon the expression, bodhran. Maybe she’s just a born percussoid. >
Charlie