Re: Conlang with whistles

 --- Rachel Klippenstein skrzypszy:

> > 1) labial (though all of my whistles involve rounding)
> > 2) retroflexed (probably equal to your alveolar)
> > 3) front trilled (superimpose an alveolar trill on the whistle)
> > 4) back trilled (superimpose a uvular trill on the whistle)
My father had the ability to produce a whistle between his two front teeth, but
I think that had something do to with the way they were placed in his mouth. I
can't do it.
I have no problem with retroflexed whistling, although it's harder to produce a
clear tune and I can't get the 2-3 three octaves that I can get when whistling
normally.

> I'd love to incorporate other whistles, but I have to
> figure out how to make them and then make them in
> syllables first.
Have you considered ingressive whistling? It's very easy to do (as a matter of
fact, when I was a child is learnt to do that before I learnt to whistle
normally). There is even a nice trill to it: when your tongue is immediately
under the opening of the mouth with a small amount of saliva on it.

Another thing, but difficult to practise is multiphonics. I used to have the
ability to whistle two tones simultanuously, but unfortunately I lost it.

Last thing I can think of is whistling overtones.

Jan

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