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FurAffinity; Whistling
Jan. 4th, 2007 08:27 pmI was daydreaming recently about attending the FurAffinity United convention (9-12 August 2007, Central NJ). I imagined sitting in the lobby with my laptop, whistling for several hours until something decent finally came out. Of course, that would never happen. ("Creating a public disturbance", yadda yadda.)
Today I was reading Stephen Dubner's blogpost about Canada, which led me to Jessica Simpson, which led to Dolly Parton and also Talk:Jessica Simpson, which led to Whistle Register (a.k.a. flageolet). Yes, I'll do anything to avoid paying work!
Anyway, the whistle-singing I used to do in college is not like "Mariah Carey hitting a C8 note". It was much lower-pitched and more akin to ventriloquism: forming consonants with the back of my throat while the front made whistly noises. A few times I tried switching from whistling to singing, but found that to make the same note the usual way required a complete rearrangement of my mouth parts. Perhaps I could achieve that with practice. Making the same whistle-note on inhale and exhale requires a rearrangement of mouth-parts, but I got that down pat years ago.
Today I was reading Stephen Dubner's blogpost about Canada, which led me to Jessica Simpson, which led to Dolly Parton and also Talk:Jessica Simpson, which led to Whistle Register (a.k.a. flageolet). Yes, I'll do anything to avoid paying work!
Anyway, the whistle-singing I used to do in college is not like "Mariah Carey hitting a C8 note". It was much lower-pitched and more akin to ventriloquism: forming consonants with the back of my throat while the front made whistly noises. A few times I tried switching from whistling to singing, but found that to make the same note the usual way required a complete rearrangement of my mouth parts. Perhaps I could achieve that with practice. Making the same whistle-note on inhale and exhale requires a rearrangement of mouth-parts, but I got that down pat years ago.
