Do you still whistle?

[energy]

The title sums up the question. I'm wondering if there is so little on topic conversation because people aren't playing much.

I've mostly stopped playing whistle, aside from infrequent instances where I'll pick it up again for a few days. I think that for the amount of time I put into playing, it wasn't very rewarding. Generally. Now I'm a closet fiddler.

On a similiar vein, how many consider some other instrument to be your main focus?

[Unseen122]

Whistle is one of my main instruments in fact I probably right now play whistle the most but Flute is a very close second and third I am also a closet Fiddler fourth Bassoon my "main" instrument fifth the GHBs they are oyut all the time but I am too lazy to venture to the basement.

[Nanohedron]

I'm primarily a fluteplayer. I come to this forum for the hijinks, but just to let everybody that I finally started playing whistles of late! Took long enough. I actually like playing 'em; some tunes sound better to me on whistle than anything else. So now I actually deserve to be here.

[DCrom]

The title sums up the question. I'm wondering if there is so little on topic conversation because people aren't playing much.

I've mostly stopped playing whistle, aside from infrequent instances where I'll pick it up again for a few days. I think that for the amount of time I put into playing, it wasn't very rewarding. Generally. Now I'm a closet fiddler.

On a similiar vein, how many consider some other instrument to be your main focus?

I whistle every day.

On days where I'm really busy at work, I may only get half an hour in at lunchtime.

On days when I get home earlier, I may get in an additional hour or more at home.

I play high whistles (I consider an A to be a "high whistle") at work; I try to split my at-home time fairly evenly between high and low whistles.

Except for a little casual practice from time to time with my Dixon Duo's flute head, it's whistle all they way. I may get more serious about flute, but if so it'll replace low whistle - the high whistles will still get time.

[Congratulations]

Whistle is one of my main instruments in fact I probably right now play whistle the most but Flute is a very close second and third I am also a closet Fiddler fourth Bassoon my "main" instrument fifth the GHBs they are oyut all the time but I am too lazy to venture to the basement.

Another bassoonist! I would probably place bassoon as my second instrument behind saxophone, with whistle as third. Then ukulele and the little bit of piano and guitar I can do. Lately, I've really hit the whistles hard, though, so I've actually spent more time playing those than anything else. Still have to practice my sax, though!

[StewySmoot]

I play a Low D nightly for 1/2 hour to help me relax.

[Redwolf]

Mercy, yes! I play every day! In fact I overplayed today, because I'm so eager to learn the session tunes I picked up this weekend...my hands are sore!

Redwolf

[TelegramSam]

I haven't played on a regular basis in about a year and a half, sadly. School has just sapped my energy and I still live in blasted dormitory. I'll pick it up again one of these days, as it stands, I've probably forgotten everything by now anyhow, so it'll all be brand new again.

[ErikT]

Yes. I play my whistle when I'm in a whistle mood and my flute when in a flute mood. For today, that meant 1.5 hours on whistle and .5 on flute (and 4 minutes on bodhran). I probably play my flute most often in sessions. I've been a flute player much longer than I've been a whistle player.

Erik

[The Weekenders]

Since getting a new job, I have to commute much longer distances and my life at home is shorter. Hard to find time to practice and I have yet to find a place to sneak in some tuneage at work. I manage to get some in daily at home. But very hard to really go in depth. I find that spinning the CDs helps refocus what I really love about the music.

One thing I do hate is trying to practice when kinda tired. That sucks and is discouraging because I have a keen sense of what happens when you practice something poorly: it gets ingrained then requires ten times more effort to extract.

[mamakash]

I don't play on a regular basis . . . I got busy or distracted or just spent too much time reading this board! If I play in the den(where I am right now) it drives my bird crazy. In fact, I just quietly picked on my whistle off the desk, and my bird came down to the bottom of the cage and peeked under the blanket I had thrown over it! She knows, she always knows.

On the other hand, I recorded my Buntus Cainte tape to CD and I've listened to it while I'm on the computer. But the bird doesn't seem to like that either.

[ErikT]

What are you talking about, Weeks?

DRIVING TIME = PRACTICE TIME!

[emmline]

whistles sit on my desk, and I toodle a tune or several each day if the mood strikes as I'm between other tasks. It's far from my primary focus...just a pleasant diversion and temporary distraction. Fun hobby I guess, in my case.

[PhilO]

I only play whistle and play 6 or 7 days a week, between 15 minutes and an hour and a half a day. I take lessons once every two weeks.

Philo

[Darwin]

I normally play off and on all day, but for the past three and a half weeks we've been living with our younger son in a rather crowded household, so I only play for about a half hour a day, when I can find a bit of time when I don't think I'll disturb anyone too much. We should finally get into the new house in about 10 or 12 days, so I'll get back on schedule then.