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what would be a funny thing to teach my 5 y/o niece? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by pelletbucket@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm visiting extended family for the first time in a long time, and one of my nieces has reached the impressionable age where she keeps mimicking things that she sees me do. what's a really funny but fairly harmless thing I should teach her to do?

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you know how, teach her how to whistle real high using the fingers on top of the tongue. One way is by making an O with the thumb and the index finger, bending/rolling your tongue backwards a bit and pressing your fingers against it.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh look at Mr You can just do it this way or that way.

I STILL CANT WHISTLE ALL YOU WHISLTING ELITISTS!!!

😭

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Me neither. I can buzz my lips to a melody without a needing an actual horn, though.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you play a brass instrument?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I did for like a decade. I'd still play, but I was never as good as my peers, and that shit's expensive.

It still took a long time to nail the exact movements down, after I made the sound accidentally a couple times. There's no resonance to rely on the way you can for low brass, at least.