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[rone]

I've always maintained that whistling as part of music is inevitably awful.  It feels intrusive, like someone's playing a cheap instrument amidst high-quality instruments, or worse.  It turns out, of course, that it's a perfectly good instrument in the hands... uh, mouth of an expert.  Such as Andrew Bird.

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[(Anonymous)]

and Axl Rose in "Patience"... GNR...grrrrr!

No. It really does usually suck.

[thorfinn]

Well, yes. Whistling is an extremely difficult instrument. It involves an awful lot of complicated stuff to do with your whole head as well as your lips... even more so than singing. It's probably about as tricky to do well as harmonic singing, I think. That doesn't mean you can't do it well, just that it's bloody hard to do well. :-)

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Ha, as I was reading this I was thinking, 'well, Andrew Bird does it pretty well...' Oh, foolish me, jumping the gun.

[nerdsholmferret.livejournal.com]

Get off Roger Whittaker's lawn, you kids!

[thegodliestlord.livejournal.com]

He's using the same delay modeler pedal that i have. It's pretty sweet.