How do you whistle?
Would you like to be able to whistle well at the right moment? Few people are natural at that. So it takes a little practice to whistle well. But how do you actually do that?
There are two main ways to whistle: once without a finger, like whistling a song, and once with two fingers, like creating a single loud whistle.
This is how you whistle without hands
If you want to whistle your favorite songs in the shower, use the fingerless variant.
- Tip your lips into a small round shape. In fact, your lips are positioned as if you were going to say "ü".
- Your tongue is at the bottom of your mouth. The tip of the tongue does not touch the front teeth or the roof of the mouth. It floats freely in the front of the mouth. The sides of the tongue, on the other hand, lie between the molars. The tongue is under a certain tension. The tip of the tongue is lower than the rest of the tongue. Your entire lip and tongue position is now very similar to the position when pronouncing an "ü".
- Now blow gently until you hear a whistling sound. This can take several attempts. You can create different pitches with the front part of the tongue. Once you've got the hang of how to whistle, the different tones will come up on their own.
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How to do it with two fingers
If you want to produce a single, sometimes very loud whistle, use two fingers to help. Again, you have to practice a little until it works.
- Place your index finger and thumb on both corners of your mouth. Then bring your lower lip forward a little and your fingers towards each other. You can place the other fingers on your cheek.
- To whistle, blow air through your pursed lips with pressure. Of the volume becomes louder the higher the pressure with which you blow.
This type of whistling can get really loud. So don't necessarily practice next to your neighbor's ear the first few times. There are other ways to whistle with two fingers, for example with two fingers of different hands or by forming a ring with the thumb and forefinger of one hand and the tongue of lay down on it.
The trick with the glass straw
You can also use an aid to whistle, a blade of grass.
- Take a blade of grass that is not too narrow. Clamp this between the two metacarpophalangeal joints of the thumb and the thumb joints. You are now looking at the narrow side of the blade of grass.
- To whistle, place your lips on your thumbs, behind the gap that forms between the two thumb joints and in which the glass straw is stretched. Now blow through the gap.
