# Whistling with your fingers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whistling-with-your-fingers/333968>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 4, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whistling-with-your-fingers/333968 "2005-12-04T01:14:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whistling-with-your-fingers/333968/1 "2005-12-04T01:14:29Z")

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So I can whistle normally and by cupping my hands, but I have no clue how to whistle with my fingers. So can anyone explain to me how it is down or point me to a how-to online?

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**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whistling-with-your-fingers/333968/2 "2005-12-04T02:43:30Z")

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> [@ronincyberpunk](#):
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> So I can whistle normally and by cupping my hands, but I have no clue how to whistle with my fingers. So can anyone explain to me how it is down or point me to a how-to online?

[\*\* Two Finger Whistle \*\*](http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=419588)

Then there are some who folks can’t whistle with an “Acme Thunderer.”

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**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whistling-with-your-fingers/333968/3 "2005-12-04T03:20:39Z")

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Spingears, I owe you a beer.

I’ve always wanted to be able to make that one-handed whistle, but never could. Your link did the trick - took less than a minute of practice. Amazing.

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**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whistling-with-your-fingers/333968/4 "2005-12-04T04:21:16Z")

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I still can’t.

☹☹☹☹

I must be deficient in some crucial whistling gene.

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**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whistling-with-your-fingers/333968/5 "2005-12-04T05:37:41Z")

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thanks

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**Author:** ![ms.deanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@ms.deanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ms.deanna)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whistling-with-your-fingers/333968/6 "2005-12-04T17:44:35Z")

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I can do the 2 finger whistle. Press in on your tongue with your upper and lower lip curled inward. For me , it comes from the lower lip more than the upper. Then blow outward. Good Luck.