I Learned to Whistle DANGEROUSLY LOUD

[Music] I've wanted to do a ridiculously loud whistle all my life since seeing New Yorkers hail cabs in movies and when people go nuts when someone gets some form of ball into some form of net so I'm finally gonna do it so my aim is to First learn the two-handed whistle and then the one-handed cab Halo whistle I came across these scales of decibels that show how loud things are in the world and also the range of noises that is actually safe for humans to actually experience so obviously I want these whistles to be louder than my normal whistle but I also want to just see how loud I can actually get if I've got an aim to get into these red areas just to see if my whistle could ever actually become dangerous okay so I've got this decibel app on my phone that I'm going to measure the whistles with so for a bass line I first want to just see what my normal whistle is even at I'm gonna set myself up about a foot and a half away just so that the actual air that's coming out of my mouth doesn't affect the microphone this is pretty good all right here we go all right that was topping out around 80-ish respectable and is already apparently as loud as a truck there isn't exactly anything dangerous okay so in a second you're gonna realize that I actually started making this video a little while ago because to get to the start of this experiment we're gonna have to go back in time about one significant haircut ago but first let's talk about the technique because I forgot to film this part back then after doing a bit of initial research I found out that the technique for the two hand whistle is actually pretty simple and breaks down into four key Parts with each hand you're going to want to create these pistol shapes and push them together and the Eagle Eye out there will notice we've just created the letter a and this is the vital shape by the way next you need to wet your lips and then make Grandpa lips you know like pretending you don't have any teeth and then you combine all that and use that a shape to push the tip of your tongue back over itself whilst those nice wet Grandpa lips seal up around it and then you're just supposed to blow air out at least that's how simple I thought it would be one hair cargo all right [Music] all right day one attempt one I was feeling confident I knew the basic technique I made the a shape and the grandpa lips it was time to give it a go foreign yeah pretty much went how you'd expect so practice montage [Music] and after five minutes of solid practice I made no progress and actually really started to hurt oh so I took a quick break and then got back to it and this time after trying for a few more minutes I started hearing something [Music] the problem is after about half an hour of trying I was still just getting this oh man so yeah clearly I was doing something very wrong but there was no way that I was gonna get from this to this without just a bunch more practicing and a bunch more experimenting and with some more practice even though it was still sounding pretty pathetic I was eventually starting to get louder [Music] I am getting so much better which caused a new problem it really hurt my ears so to actually keep trying I needed to Chuck on noise canceling headphones for the next couple of days I practiced whenever and wherever I could but progress was slow and it still wasn't even close to sounding right and this is when I came across a tip that led to a massive Discovery the tip is to use a mirror and then look at yourself whilst you make changes to your like mouth shape and your finger orientation and all of that good stuff so then if you do make a change and it actually has an impact you can see exactly what you did and then just repeat it so I got the mirror out and gave it a go after moving my tongue and my chin and my fingers around for a good like 25 minutes something happened what was that something's changed one thing I changed one thing okay so this whistle might not sound like much but after discovering this one specific tweak I tried again and okay what my mind is blown okay here's the magic sauce that changed everything for me I realized that it's like when you create a little opening on top of a beer bottle and create a train noise this works by turning the bottle into a resonance chamber I think but with your mouth the resonance chamber is the space between the folded tongue and your lower jaw and instead of the opening created by your thumbs on the lip of the bottle with the mouth whistle the opening is created with the a shape of your two hands and you can genuinely feel the vibrations in a similar way when you do both which meant I could now do this okay we're back one haircut later in the present day it's now actually been about a month since I learned the two-handed whistle so I think it's about time that I learned the proper taxi whistle so that I can hail a cab with one hand whilst doing other important stuff like holding a banana or a boomerang or a beer or even all three with the other hand I've got a feeling that this is going to be pretty easy seeing as I have already learned this one yeah still really hurts ears I think I'm gonna be needing these bad boys again so the concept is the same except instead of making an a shape with two hands you make an okay symbol like this but the important part is that you're still making an a shape with your thumb and index finger so this is attempt number one foreign okay I guess this is gonna be harder than I thought [Applause] okay I feel like I'm getting somewhere but it's just not feeling like that whole beer bottle analogy like before literally within seconds I'm already hearing something that sounds closer to what the whistle should sound like as I was thinking this might actually take me ages I gave it one more go I think I might have it hold on hold on hold on all right okay okay okay okay let me just make sure that I know what's what's going on here foreign it's so good oh my God okay I know exactly what's happening let me show you okay so when I learned this with two hands and I was doing the grandpa lips the top and the bottom lip were basically as tight as each other but with this one in front of the mirror I just tried doing two simple things I moved my chin forward a tiny bit more and then I let my lower lip go kind of floppy yeah I kind of let my lower lip go floppy I guess that just helps to close the gap around the fingers when there are less fingers in my mouth Jesus this whole video sounds so weird so I'm not 100 sure what the lip flop does but with the lip flop [Music] yep nailed it come on alright so we already know that this hurts my ears but let's see how loud they actually are decibel app running headphones on okay two-handed whistle first and remember my aim is over 100. I want to be causing some hearing damage oh my God that wasn't even a good whistle oh my God that is so loud all right now how loud can I call for a taxi oh my God I was like 110. [Music] I'm louder than a helicopter so if I were to be whistling next to somebody it's somewhere between like 15 minutes and 15 seconds and I would cause hearing damage 110 decibels is in a media cause of hearing loss what well there you have it I can cause immediate hearing loss with my hands that's crazy I'm scaring myself so next I need to go to hospital because I reckon I need to learn an iconic whistle [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Tommo Carroll

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Length: 9min 23sec (563 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 31 2023