My dog’s head hasn’t exploded yet, but he does occasionally…well, let’s just say he’s gotten a bit incontinent in his old age and leave it at that. I figured it was senility. You think maybe it’s the Susato?
The cat, on the other hand, flatly refuses to remain in a room with any whistle playing above second octave G (unless it’s the Whitecap, which he doesn’t seem to mind). If he’s being naughty, all I have to do is say “Jonah, if you’re not careful, mama will have to play ‘Danny Boy’” and he straightens right up.
Hmm. Our cat seems to like whistles, even in the second octave. In particular, the sound of “Governor King’s March” or “The Girl I Left Behind Me” (can you tell where I am in the Clarke book?) acts as a cat magnet. But I don’t own a Susato - at home, it’s usually a Dixon, Generation, Oak, or Sweetone.
Should I get a Susato VS and experiment, or would that be counted as cruelty to animals?
The dogs don’t mind the whistle. Two of the cats hurl themselves from the house, tails bushy, claws outstretched, wailing like banshees when I play. The kitten on the other hand has decided to become a lap dancer, and performs the most extraordinary contortions while I play, all the while purring as loud as is felinely possible. I have now to play standing up, as he writhes around on my knee nudging the whistle whenever I get it out. People are starting to look at us funny…
Funny, I’m the opposite. I PREFER the flutey sound, and am not too fond of the cheap-whistle chirpy sound.
But I have a tuneable Susato in D, don’t know what model, and I use it for playing with others, mainly… my Overton is always slightly flat, unless I warm it.
I can say it. I don’t have equipment / webspace / a good enough computer to post a clip though. A friend of mine went to school in Llanfair p. g. (as they call it for short).
As for the gathering, it’s too out of the way - wrong direction for everyone. Since they changed the station sign to the shortened version there’s not much to see anyway.
Jo, I have heard it pronounced, though I have no idea how correctly (an English friend who did it as a party trick). He admitted that in ordinary circumstances he used the short form, too.
I’m assuming that if you speak Welsh it’s possible to say it without being half-drunk.
But I’m living proof that ancestry has no bearing on linguistic talent - though I have a fairly high percentage of Welsh ancestry backaways, I surely can’t say it. And the only portion of the famed Welsh singing talent I’ve inherited is . . . a loud voice.
There’s a REASON I like melody instruments that I stick in my mouth - nobody ever asks me to SING.
There’s a REASON I like melody instruments that I stick in my mouth - nobody ever asks me to SING.
A study should be done about the phallic nature of our relationship with whistles. The second clause is obviously what is known as a rationalisation of suppressed urges that really shouldn’t come up on this site at all…
I’m sorry, Callybeg, but you’re confusing a fallacy (on your part) for a phallus. And though I frequently wave my whistles around in public, I only wave my phallus around in private.
Though if I had a phallus the size of a Low D, I might want to wave it around in public - 'cause nobody in their right mind would dare let me wave it at them in private.
Fortunately for me, I don’t and I don’t, so I can.
