Comments on: How to Whistle

on 5/21/2008 Very good for who cannot sing. I'll try...
Thanks for great idea...

on 2/25/2008 Dear All

I dont like to boost but I can whistle almost any tune of any song which I hear once. This is a Gods gift to me. I am based at Delhi/ India., You can contact me at g.bha@rediffmail.com
regards
gaurav

on 2/25/2008 Dear All

I dont like to boost but I can whistle almost any tune of any song which I hear once. This is a Gods gift to me. I am based at Delhi/ India., You can contact me at g.bha@rediffmail.com
regards
gaurav

on 1/5/2008 My husband's grandmother told him when he was a little boy that he could whistle if he drank buttermilk. He believed her cause his grandfather was always whistling and he wanted to be like him. He decided after trying buttermilk it wasn't worth it. He just would't whistle. Years later, he learned on his own!

on 1/5/2008 What ever happened to Mae West's technique?... "...you know, just put your lips together and blow..."

on 1/5/2008 Lauren Bacall said it best--- just put your lips together and blow!
-George

on 8/2/2006 As much as I try to whistle, I can't seem to produce a single note. Well, for people who can't seem to utter a tune from the regular way of whistling (using your lower jaw), you can use the upper one. I figured this out when I was 8, so you should be able to pick it up easily, and it works just as good as regular whistling, only its quieter, and more precise. I use it to whistle to my birds, or to myself. well, here are the instructions:

1. Lay the edges of your tongue on the very edge of your molars.
2. Curl the tip of your tongue up the roof of your mouth, without touching it.
3. Blow gently. Control the pitch by puckering your lips.

Another way to do this is to make an 'S' sound, and slowly move your tongue backward.

on 3/11/2006 First, I make sure my lips are nice and wet. Then, I place just the tip of my tongue somewhere against the back of my bottom-front teeth, positioning it anywhere from above the biting edge of my teeth to as far down as I can tuck it. The higher I place it, the higher the pitch.
With the tip anchored in position, I then bend my tongue upward like a curved shoehorn or a sloped half pipe ramp, so that the lips of the half pipe curve upward to touch (or almost touch) the corners of my puckered upper lip. I curve my entire tongue like this and create a seal along the upper-front molars. Then, I pucker my lips as whistlers do, and blow like whistlers blow.

on 2/28/2006 Since everyone's mouth is different, one thing that helps me, is to slightly curl and pucker my lips to a tiny "0" shape. Start blowing out gently, and think of a tune you want to whistle to, and breathe in and out to each note of that tune, soon you'll get it if you practice enough--though it shouldn't take that long.
Also:
-wetting your lips helps give a more profound note
-trying to send air between your bottom/upper teeth

on 10/21/2007 1. Think of a song.
2. Then put the different pitches together to form a tune.
3. Some pitches may be too loud. To stop this from happening you must start on a low pitch to keep a steady song.
4. Then you can mix the high pitch and low pitches together to create a work of art. I created a notepad to keep different notes in to form different songs.

on 12/19/2005 Firmly brace the tip of your tongue against your lower teeth, form a "U" shape inside mouth with the majority of your tongue, lower jaw marginally, until there is around 1/4 of an inch separating your upper teeth from the lower teeth, pucker lips into a small "O" shape, and blow gently. The back of your tongue should be higher than the tip, -closer to the roof of your mouth; so as to funnel the air toward your lips. Experiment, practice and you'll get it.

on 11/22/2005 Everybody's mouths are different, but when I whistle, I kind of fold my tongue up and blow gently, and move my tongue around until I get a solid note.

on 11/22/2005 1) Purse your lips, keep them a bit tight to ensure your O shape stays constant.
2) Firm your tongue, and curl it slightly upward so that it is on the brink of touching your lips but doesn't reach that far.
3) Suspend your tongue almost mid-mouth.
4) Suck in or blow out slowly to produce a noise.
5) For different notes, move your tongue either up or down in your mouth and you get a new note!

on 11/22/2005 Put the edges of your tongue flat against the side of your teeth. Put your lips into an "O" shape (as if there was something sour in your mouth), and blow.

on 11/22/2005 1. place your index finger and your thumb under your tongue as if you were to get something from under it. Try near the tip. Experiment!
2. pucker your lips like you ate something sour.
3. have your palm face towards your chin, i heard the whistle has something to do with the way the palm is held so just go ahead with that one.
4. blow air at random speeds to see what works, it may take a while. also try to bring bring your jaw down a bit. this brings the back of the tongue up to "thin" the air or something like that to get the whistle right.
5. practice many times out somewhere where noone really cares, and be sure to not over do it. I sometimes feel dizzy and fall over cause i blew my brains out, but i finally got it. Good Luck!! someway or another you will get it if persistent