One Month

Whistle
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Well I have been at this whistle for a month now and here is a list of the developments since I began…

  1. My dogs now have a higher threshold for noise.
  2. My parents (whom I visited over Christmas) think I am kinda strange.
  3. I can hold a “D” without squeeks
  4. I can almost hit those high notes
  5. I can play a few tunes that actually have names (as opposed to excercises from the book I am learning from)
  6. My wife decided she wanted an instrument, so we got her a piano. (The story of how we got is is pretty cool)
  7. I now spend half an hour a day reading the rants of several hundred crazed whistlers. :slight_smile:
    :sunglasses: I now spend about an hour a day practicing and I hardly notice that the time goes by.
    So I think I will try another month of this whistling thing.
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Hey, you sound just like me. I just submitted my first (but not last) whistle haiku. You should try it sometime…

:slight_smile:

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All right, we got another one! :smiley:

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Get out while you can! It’s too late for us, but save yourself!! :laughing:

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too late. Fran

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On 2003-01-07 21:59, Leluka, in explaining why he’s not as up on supra- vs. infralapsarianism and the intricacies of the Syriac manuscript tradition in relation to the Western text of the New Testament as his teachers at DTS probably think he should be, wrote in part:
6) My wife decided she wanted an instrument, so we got her a piano. (The story of how we got is is pretty cool)

Will you share the story? :slight_smile:

John, always glad to provide an excuse not to do homework

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Yeah, I’d love to hear that one! I’ve heard of people going overnight from playing $3 MEGS to playing $80 Sindts, but from a whistle leading to a piano…that’s downright scary!

Tell, tell, tell!

Redwolf

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Only a half hour a day with us C&Fers? Where have we gone wrong?

Those high notes just take fortitude…don’t be afraid of them.

I, too, am interested in the piano!

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On 2003-01-07 21:59, Leluka wrote:
6) My wife decided she wanted an instrument, so we got her a piano. (The story of how we got is is pretty cool)

Poor misguided lady! The whistle is far superior to the piano, as she will discover when…

you tuck a whistle in your pocket to take on a walk or to a pub session, or to busk with
you drop a whistle on your foot and DON’T FEEL A THING
she searches vainly for that fun website and pianist community PLONK & RATTLE

oh, dear, I fear for her sanity…

Still, I guess it’s hard to balance pints on top of a whistle, so I guess pianos have their uses.

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As for my wife, she already plays the clarinet and I think she is avoiding the whistle so that I won’t feel self-concious.

As for the piano, sit down boys and girls, it’s storytime…

My wife played piano for most of her life and then went away to college and then went ahead and married a ministry student, in short, no money for a piano.

It been some years since then and we have a little better financial situation than when we were first married and now her birthday is approaching so I start thinking maybe I’ll look into a piano. (Esp. since I have recently started play8ing whistle)

I began to research how much pianos cost and… well lets just say a new piano wasn’t gonna happen. Oh well, maybe I’ll get her those Anne of Avonlea DVDs she wants.

Later I am talking to my mom (who lives 1600 miles away) and she says she wants to get rid of her piano and wonders if I want it. Great! I start looking into how much it would cost to ship a piano and… well lets just say a shipped piano wasn’t gonna happen. Oh well, maybe I’ll get her those Anne of Avonlea DVDs she wants.

(At this point I have to admit that I have put the piano idea out of my mind)

So last week I get a call from a friend and after we exchange the normal greetings he asks, “Are you interested in a piano… Our church has an extra that it wants to give to a family in ministry.” I think I may have gotten out a “Yes,” but I bet I just kinda mumbled something incoherent.

We moved the piano here yesterday. Christine is more excited than I ever thought she would be. I have given her some nice presents over the years (and some that were kinda loser) but I haven’t ever seen her respond like she has to this. It reminded me of a little kid who who just got their first bike or puppy or doll.

God has used this little episode to teach me some lessons. I admit I didn’t even pray about a piano, I guess I figured it was too unlikely and too unimportant. But God is gracious and he knows the desires of our hearts and he can and does give even beyond what we dare to ask for.

Luke