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learning to "wild whistle"

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

There's a thing you can do with your hands where you make an air-tight space and then blown past a gap between your thumbs to make a sound like an ocarina. Among other things, this is called a "wild whistle", and today I learned how to do it through the "patient" tutelage of my eleven-year-old.