# Teach me to whistle loudly with my fingers.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 26, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teach-me-to-whistle-loudly-with-my-fingers/362276 "2006-06-26T23:18:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teach-me-to-whistle-loudly-with-my-fingers/362276/1 "2006-06-26T23:18:40Z")

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So I’m sitting here looking at instructions on how to do the loud taxi-hail-style whistle  
with the index finger and thumb of one hand, but I’m having a bit of trouble. I can’t visualize what aspects of my mouth and fingers create what part of the whistle, so I don’t know what to change them to get it right. Here are the instructions I’m using for reference. Anyone have any hints or tips?

[http://bluebones.net/whistle/](http://bluebones.net/whistle/)