We would find metal strips by the tracks,fold in half and used it between our teeth to whistle.Loudly.My Mom hated them.I was a tom boy and after she took them away,I just learned to whistle without it.She was furious.Said young ladies don't whistle like that.I told her I was still a girl..Mom.
2007-11-02 11:15:38 · 15 answers · asked by Maw-Maw 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
I didn't get the metal strip from the railroad track, but we got some from somewhere. Weren't those the greatest. I could whistle as loud as my Dad!
2007-11-02 11:26:11 · answer #1 · answered by kayboff 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Learn To Whistle Loud
2016-10-22 03:18:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I used the grass blades, too. Never learned to whistle very loudly between my teeth, but would love to do that. Did learn to use my two little fingers, but that only works sometimes. Feel really stupid when I am all set to let blast and nothing happens. And I'm a little more reluctant to do that nowdays as I often have my hands in some pretty grimey stuff.
2007-11-03 20:31:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember putting the candy wrapper platic paper stretched between the fingers and blowing on it and making a shrieking whistle, but that is about it. I can whistle a little bit still, but not like when I was a kid.
2007-11-02 14:07:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, I never did that. I wasn't allowed to go near the railroad tracks. As a youngster, I saw kids take a blade of grass, hold it tight between their thumbs, & blow into it, to whistle. I never learned to do that either.
2007-11-02 12:32:40 · answer #5 · answered by Shortstuff13 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My mom showed me how to whistle between two strips of grass. It has to be the wide wild grass you find in the tall weeds. It certainly gets your attention.
2007-11-02 18:56:51 · answer #6 · answered by Donna 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Never did.
We lived by the railroad tracks, too, but I never found any metal strips there.
Found lots of empty pop bottles to take back to the store and got 2 cents for each one.
2007-11-02 11:40:10 · answer #7 · answered by Tigger 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'd never heard of doing that, we used blades of grass to make a whistling sound. We'd put the grass between our thumbs-side by side and blow on it. Your jaws ached like fire when you were done.
2007-11-02 11:37:14 · answer #8 · answered by luvspbr2 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2016-04-02 01:15:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
glad to meet you,asa young boy i did use a strip to whistle and my dad got me a juice harp,i played that thing til mama hid it from me,then i bought a french harp,got pretty good later on,butmama got started and i had to go to the barn to play it
2007-11-02 13:04:25 · answer #10 · answered by THE"IS" 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋