Mine had the nerve to roll his eyes, get up off the couch, and leave the room when I started to play… and if that wasn’t bad enough, he had to toss in a parting shot about me waking up in the morning and finding all my whistles broken! (He was joking, but still…) Can one divorce on the grounds of threatening whistle abuse?? 
Still miffed,
Andrea ~*~
On 2002-12-13 18:40, aderyn wrote:
Mine had the nerve to roll his eyes, get up off the couch, and leave the room when I started to play… and if that wasn’t bad enough, he had to toss in a parting shot about me waking up in the morning and finding all my whistles broken! (He was joking, but still…) Can one divorce on the grounds of threatening whistle abuse?? <img src=> http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/angryfire.gif> >Still miffed,
Andrea ~*~
So he’s trying to control your behavior by disapproval, punishing you by removing himself, and making “joking” threats…and you’re worried about your WHISTLES?
As Dr. Phil says, “I would never ask you to substitute my judgment for yours…” but this may require some soul-searching and some face-time with someone you trust.
M
“It takes a mighty fine man to be better than no man at all.”
Umm… I don’t think it’s as serious as all that… this was more of a joking kind of rant. 
I think there are probably a few eye-rolling spouses out there amongst our board members, if I’m not mistaken. 
Of course, there is the chance that I may need to spend some time at Whistler’s Anonymous.
My name is Andrea, and I am a whistle-a-holic.
I tended to get similar reactions, and so I wrote him a tune, and named it after him. Now he is MUCH more forgiving of my playing!
On 2002-12-13 18:53, avanutria wrote:
I tended to get similar reactions, and so I wrote him a tune, and named it after him. Now he is MUCH more forgiving of my playing! >
A win-win! The best solution!
M
(who knows a mighty fine man)
This is why I love my dog.
Tom
Hmm, Beth… you may be onto something there! That sounds like something that would appeal to his very Leo self. 
Andrea ~*~
Oh my. . .okay, here’s my take on it… if you can’t woo him, make him join you. Tyghre still doesn’t like to be near me when I practice, but having his own whistle, and watching me shudder as he heads up to Those Notes, has made a bit of difference to him.
In the morning, when he is at his most sensitive, I put the whistle down when he enters the room. Period. But the time before dinner is My Time to Practice, and if he’s sensitive, stay the *&^% out of the kitchen.
Try to play in a ‘dead’ room. Carpets and furniture and pillows. Don’t play in a wood floor room, bare walls, and expect him to stick around.
Remind him: it COULD be a fife you were playing with. Or bagpipes. Or a bagpiper… no, just joking…
Or play a bit with a mute. If you’re practicing, mutes are acceptable. If you’re playing for your pleasure and you want to hear and hold those high notes, maybe go into the bedroom and shut the door.
If you want him in the room with you while you play, um. . .there are enticements (weak grin).
Best of luck!
Hmm… playing with a bagpiper… ::thinking lewd thoughts, then snapping out of it:: Tyghress, you were supposed to be helping me, not getting me into trouble!!! 
In laughter,
Andrea ~*~
Is your non-whistling sweetie totally non-musical? My “mighty fine” friend is a guitar player and duets are fun. It helps that he’s never told me to stop playing.
In fact, he’s taking up the whistle and is better than I am in the non-D key instruments. I think he can identify the keys quicker than I can.
M
Andrea, wait until your kids start playing. I was playing fife, drum and whistle already when I met my wife, so she knew what she was getting into, but now the 13 year old plays fife and clarinet and the 4 year old plays whistle, drum, harmonica and kazoo (only the kazoo competently, though). If you want to see an aggravated spouse, play a fife when one kid is playing drum and the other clarinet. We’re a lousy band, but we sure are loud!
Marguerite, he is more non-musical than you could possibly imagine…
Jim, my daughter (almost 9) has started playing the whistle, so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens-- I can only imagine the eye-rolling that will go on in the future!! 
Andrea ~*~
Do soon to be spouses coun’t? My fiance refers to them as “my damn whistles.” But them sometimes she actually sticks around while I play it. Then again sometimes she tells me to go to the garage and makes some whistles… Or play the ones I have down there 
Maybe I’ll right a song for her… hmmm
Take up the fiddle ~ he’ll be begging you to go back to the whistle after a week
… gets me thinkin’…
Mebbe I should offer a “special” model of the Village Smithy, with a removable fipple, a box of .45 cartridges, and some little mechanical “extras”.
…hmmmmm…
serp
Well, POSSLQs aren’t the only music critics. My cat Liz mews plaintively and tries to paw and rub the whistle when I play, especially when I hit the upper octave. I either have to toss her upstairs or play outside.
Critics of all species can really put a crimp in the practice sessions. :roll:
She doesn’t mind the flute–maybe I should try a lower whistle.
M
Part of the reason I recently got dumped was because I didn’t play ENOUGH whistle. Go figure.
An ex-partner of mine once slapped me for continuing to play guitar when she wanted my attention. She wasn’t my partner for much longer. (Before someone rushes to her defence, I was playing professionally at the time and this was practice time.) Well, it could have been worse, I might have been playing whistle or sax at the time.
On 2002-12-14 02:16, Wombat wrote:
An ex-partner of mine once slapped me for continuing to play guitar when she wanted my attention. She wasn’t my partner for much longer. (Before someone rushes to her defence, I was playing professionally at the time and this was practice time.) Well, it could have been worse, I might have been playing whistle or sax at the time.
Rush to her defence? For committing assault and battery on someone who was not actually attacking her? I don’t THINK so!
Good riddance, I think.
M