Whistle Techniques

[NCHSAA]

What is the technique to double tweet, or triple? I find mine to not be as crisp sounding as others.

[Welpe]

Proper embouchure and practice.

[stiffler3492]

I always keep my tongue at the opening of the whistle while it's in my mouth. Instead of just blowing air into the whistle, I sort of hit it with my tongue while blowing...giving it the crisp sound.

It's sort of hard to explain. Did you play a wind instrument in the school band? Same concept as using your tongue to separate the notes.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by stiffler3492

I always keep my tongue at the opening of the whistle while it's in my mouth. Instead of just blowing air into the whistle, I sort of hit it with my tongue while blowing...giving it the crisp sound.

Enirely too much information.

Originally Posted by tomegun

Freddy, when a crew gets to the point where how many times someone hits the whistle is a concern, that crew is doing great.

I am guilty of hitting my whistle multiple times for things like traveling, carrying, etc.

Me, too. Especially when he blows by someone with a quick first step travel or my partner may have a foul but I have the travel first.

[Mark Padgett]

My idol, Earl Strom, would tweet once, quick pause, then tweet twice when calling fouls. It was his sign to the players not to protest the call - or else!

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Est magnum volumen in mea toga.

[tomegun]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

..Especially when he blows by someone with a quick first step travel or my partner may have a foul but I have the travel first.

Exactly.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Me, too. Especially when he blows by someone with a quick first step travel or my partner may have a foul but I have the travel first.

I'll do it in these situations as well.

I don't triple up on all travels, but when I do....

[CoachNRef]

Originally Posted by stiffler3492

It's sort of hard to explain. Did you play a wind instrument in the school band? Same concept as using your tongue to separate the notes.

i used t play sax, still do occasionally, and stiffler's correct, its all tongue action. also prevents inadvertents.

not too much nfo. read the op.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by CoachNRef

i used t play sax, still do occasionally, and stiffler's correct, its all tongue action. also prevents inadvertents.

not too much nfo. read the op.

Trombone here....start AND stop the airflow with the tough. It will sound MUCH better.

[Welpe]

I never played a musical instrument but that I what I've learned to do and it produces a nice, confident tone.

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Trombone here....start AND stop the airflow with the tough. It will sound MUCH better.

Not familiar with that body part. Then again, I'm not a doctor. Neither do I play one one TV.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by CoachNRef

i used t play sax, still do occasionally, and stiffler's correct, its all tongue action. also prevents inadvertents.

not too much nfo. read the op.

It was more than I wanted to know.

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by NCHSAA

What is the technique to double tweet, or triple? I find mine to not be as crisp sounding as others.

When would you use a "double tweet" or a "triple tweet"? Certainly not for violations or fouls, which call for a "single sharp blast", right? Perhaps for instances other than those, like bringing in subs, et al.?

Some note that crew consistency suffers when there's that one guy who toot-toot's or toot-toot-toot's on violations or fouls and the other partners properly give only the "single sharp blast".

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by Freddy

When would you use a "double tweet" or a "triple tweet"? Certainly not for violations or fouls, which call for a "single sharp blast", right? Perhaps for instances other than those, like bringing in subs, et al.?

Some note that crew consistency suffers when there's that one guy who toot-toot's or toot-toot-toot's on violations or fouls and the other partners properly give only the "single sharp blast".

I will normally use multiple-tweets for a jump ball.