Whistle uses

Whistle
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I have been reading a series of nautical adventure books written by Dewy Lambdin. The main character is named Alan Lewrie and the series takes him from midshipman level to captaincy. During the series Lewrie takes up the tin whistle at his wife’s insistance and gets to be quite good at it. So, in one volume (I don’t remember which) his ship is boarded by mutineers while he is having a session with other sailors on deck. One thing leads to another and Lewrie is attacked by one of the mutineers wielding a sword. Lewrie is unarmed save for his tin whistle so he parries the sword thrust with his tin whistle, disarms his opponent and wins the day. (Huzzah) Later, he is happy to learn that, except for a couple of dents, the whistle plays as well as before.

Has anyone used a whistle for any odd purposes?

Mike

[ This Message was edited by: burnsbyrne on 2002-06-25 12:54 ]

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Sometimes I’ll use it as a conducting baton if I’m in the middle of practicing and have to stop… or use it just as a pointer…

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During the series Lewrie takes up the tin whistle at his wife’s insistance and gets to be quite good at it.

Gosh, I wish my husband was that encouraging! I played The Rakes of Mallow in the car once and he didn’t speak to me for 2 days!

Kim

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I think there was a whole thread about strange uses for whistles a while back. I would go find it, but I’m lazy.


Generation G’s are good as a telemarketer deterrant…

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Well, I already mentioned in another thread using it to deter obscene callers (one good blast and they left me alone!). And my daughter, I’m sorry to say, used the head of one of my Generations as a teething ring…does that count? :wink:

Redwolf

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Sweetones make good backscratchers..

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Um, I tape the sound hole closed, tape up the finger holes, load the thing with green choke cherries and use the thing as a blow gun when the tourists bug me!

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I use the Low D to control the television if I don’t have a remote control, and don’t want to get up.

I’ve also used it to close the door.

On 2002-06-25 17:47, Anna Martinez wrote:
Um, I tape the sound hole closed, tape up the finger holes, load the thing with green choke cherries and use the thing as a blow gun when the tourists bug me!

As I posted my last message I heard Deadwood mentioned on Jeopardy. Are our whistling freedoms still in jepoardy there?

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My two year old daughter used my aluminum low d in attempt to remodel the house…she got as far as removing one of our front windows before we caught her.

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My wife thought that it would be too gross if I said that they could pop some pretty big zits. So I won’t mention it. But they do come in handy if your kids misbehave.