How do you grade them?
Oh come on dude! What kind of question is this? :roll:
LoL! The real question is how are you guys gonna answer that?
Would rather go whistling where there is no path…and leave a trail.
Uriah
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On 2002-12-05 12:51, ChrisLaughlin wrote:
Oh come on dude! What kind of question is this? :roll:
Well, he’s new. I’m not even sure what his question is, so maybe he’ll be more specific for us.
Bran–I haven’t heard anyone “grading” players here, but they may do so in the CD reviews. (I don’t usually read them.)
I have seen lots and lots of opinions on whistles themselves. Lots. Bunches.
Why not try out the “search” feature for a while?
M
Well, there are some pretty standard ways to grade whistle players…
Male or female is always good. 
I suppose you could grade them by age, but I’m not sure it would tell you much that is useful.
You could grade them on size, like apples and oranges. Or you could sort them on hair color, or fat content…
–James
http://www.flutesite.com
Ole Bran may be new, but don’t we lack a whistlin scale ?
Like Bofor for sea condition
Richters’ scales for earthquakes and piano quavers
May I suggest a Bran’s scale from D to D’ ?
Zilch, Low below Low Bran C = Plays the recorder : “can one actually play a whistle ?”
Barytone Bran C# = plays very good chess
Low Bran D = doesn’t play, but lurks on chiffboard
Low Bran Eb = ready to snipe his first Feadog spotted on Ebay
…
(etc. – you fill in. Any suggestions ?)
…
All Bran Overblown D’ = Being quoted as the Paganini of ITM, resigned from CEO and dropped his stock options* to make a living from his whistling. The full set of whistles offered by Copeland did help, but he tells the journalists he plays only Feadogs.
*Note : though his agent is suspected of raiding Spillane Inc. and Chiffstain whistles, Ltd.
[ This Message was edited by: Zubivka on 2002-12-05 13:42 ]
From “Caddyshack”:
Judge Smails: So what did you shoot today, Ty?
Ty: You know I don’t keep score, Judge.
Judge Smails: Well, how do you measure yourself against other golfers?
Ty: By height.
John Mac
Great
advanced
intermidate
no bad
bad
realy bad
crap
And then we could get to the bad ones.
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Wizz
Hey how come I can’t get this silly smiley thingie ta work?
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Mostly Bs and B+s with a few As and a scattering of Cs. But then I’m a pretty lenient grader and don’t have much use for the bell curve. I can’t understand why they call it that, anyway. I mean, who actually plays one bell. Bell choirs, sure. Some of them can even cover a whole octave, but one bell? And what’s this “curve” thing, anyway? No whistle is curved. Well, maybe that sarpent thingie someone posted a couple of weeks ago, but other than that…oh, wait, I guess you could say a Sweet is curved, sorta, anyway. Besides…
Uh, what was the question again?
Hey Wizz, quit using spaces between your BBcode…that’s why it’s not working. Do this instead.
Ahhhhhhh to heck with it!!! I can’t get it right either!!! sshheeeeeeeesshhh
Would rather go whistling where there is no path…and leave a trail.
Uriah
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Ahhhhhhh to heck with it!!! I can’t get it right either!!! sshheeeeeeeesshhh
Uriah
Well now I don’t feel so bad!
Wizz
[ This Message was edited by: wizzy on 2002-12-05 16:51 ]
You need the backslash ‘’ in front of the close ‘img’ in the square brackets?
You start with ‘img’ and end with ‘img’.
Actually, you need a front slash:
img in square brackets in front
/img in square brackets in back
see the BBcode link for more info.
Yup. Thanks.
Get the bends switching between DOS based and real operating systems. Keep mixing up the slashes when I do that.
On 2002-12-05 12:46, Bran wrote:
How do you grade them?
Harshly… 
On one of Dale’s links (dont remember which offhand) somone said: If you make a noise, any noise at all, you’re a musician. If you like the noise you make, you’re a good musician. And if someone else likes the noise you make, you’re a great musician.
I’ve always thought that was a good way to judge yourself.