I said this wasn’t for the light hearted. So here it goes…I to enjoy a taiste of the brew. Hehehehe (hey it’s St. Patricks soon right?!!) So I’m sipping the ol’ natural carbs and playing away in between sips. Well ok they may not be sips. So what happens when it don’t pay rent, right. You burp. Hehehehe. I’m in the middle of an intense run so I can’t and don’t want to stop. I swear to you all, my whistle dips down a half step!! I can’t believe it!
Science tells you if it happens once you must reproduce it a second time for confermentaion. So I repeat this mad sequence, and lo and behold, sure enough a half step!
Here’s the thing, It pops back up to the natural note without waiver. I know when you let your breath run out the pitch can drop down a half , but the note doesn’t hold.
Someone explain this phenomenon.
If I can get the timing right I just might come up with a whole new ornament.
I’m sorry I can’t help it, I posted and and already 11 people have checked this thread out. I’m rotfl, how many of you are going to try this out for yourself? LOL
. I swear to you all, my whistle dips down a half step!! I can’t believe it!
John, I think Jack’s saying that when he burps while playing the whistle, it goes a little flat.
I can attest that my own whistles do this when belching from carbonation either from guinness or from coca-cola. I assume it’s a gas-density issue, much like how helium makes your voice squeak. A serendipity would have it, I was showing this interesting phenomenon to my band mates about a week ago.
[ This Message was edited by: Wandering_Whistler on 2002-03-14 20:18 ]
Yep, it’s happened to me numerous times. It’s because most of what you burp out is CO2. Someone posted a few months back about taking in a lungful of helium and the pitch going up half a step or so. I verified this with several people present.
The speed of sound is higher in helium and lower in CO2, leading to higher or lower frequencies.
On 2002-03-14 20:27, RCORC wrote:
So theoretically..if the expulsion of gas made it’s way thru your digestive tract to the other “exit” your whistle would go a little sharp, right???
Where are you placing the whistle? Inquiring minds want to know.
Tony
I don’t know how a repeat post got down this far, so I am deleting it. And no, I haven’t been, make that I wasn’t drinking when it happened. …hic… ~bubbles~ JP
[ This Message was edited by: JohnPalmer on 2002-03-14 23:28 ]
John, if you want to start your St. Patricks day early, grab yer whistle while your at. Drink up and play that ol’ whislte. Enjoy the evening and keep playing. At some point your going to feel a sensation down in da belly. Keep on playing, what ever you do don’t stop playing. You don’t want to stop nature either though. Let that CO2 come up and realy let into the whistle. You’ll notice a drop in pitch for as long as the Co2 keeps going. As an added bonus the lower pitch sticks around for a bit.
My theory is if you can time it just right, I think you might be able come up with some amazing ornaments!
[ This Message was edited by: jackorion on 2002-03-14 22:37 ]
