Hello Jean! I knew that I would hear back from you! I got a notice this afternoon from Lyft asking me if I wanted to tip you. I had pushed the five stars and the tip while you were getting my rollator out of the trunk. It seems that it did not go through then. So I added a $5.00 tip for you on the app. Sorry for any confusion! Just stay friendly and the tips will roll in. Service is the key to this job, and you understand that as a Musician like me. Go out of your way for you customers and this job will treat you well with Lyft. I was on numerous National TV Shows that are up here including the two Tonight Shows in 1979 which is in two parts, and the one in 2001 with Leno. I was on Evening Magazine where the Show ran my feature Nationally twice. I make music in many different ways in my over two hundred videos that are up here starting in 2007. I will check out your Channel and see if I can put you in touch with some of my friends who do the same thing as you. Wishing you all the best! Jean, I listened to you singing the beautiful Haitian Song with your wonderful gentle voice and expressive guitar! You are a FINE MUSICIAN AND TALENTED! Please let people post Comments. I have a whole audience of friends who would love to watch and leave comments on your Channel. Once you open up the Comments, I will post that video up for many to see and enjoy as much as I did! DO NOT HIDE YOUR ABILITY!! I did send the video to a friend from an African Country that I met here knowing that she would enjoy it. But, she has to be able to leave a comment. You two will get along great!

Jean, let people comment on your videos. Switch it on in your KZbin Setup. You are a Semi Professional Musician who everyone is going to like. I have sent your Autumn Leaves and you singing the Haitian Song to individual friends and posted them on my Facebook Page!

Thank you Manu for enjoying this second rendition of this song that I posted within days of one another. Also, thank you as always for your wonderful comment. This rendition was in a higher key and was slower. The first one, right before this one, was Handwhistled along with Edith Piaf's Recording of the song in English. If you haven't heard that one, please check it out. I put the same effort into both performances! Stay well and happy!

@@HandwhistlerBen Hi Ben, I listened to your first version that's also so nice !!! Congratulations and my best wishes !

Thank you Bobby _Darin_Lover for stopping by and for your comment and for enjoying the hard work that went into this. I did another rendition Handwhistling with Edith Piaf on her Record that you may enjoy more. I have not gotten it as good as I want it yet! kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6rJl2aLrM1sr5Y Wishing you and yours all the best!

Thank you Muana for enjoying and for leaving such a lovely comment as well. May your weekend be everything that you want it to be and MORE!

Jorge, thank you for enjoying my first take of this gorgeous song and for leaving your comment! Stay well and happy!

Great hearing from you Indisugar. It has been a long time. I hope that you and your Family are all well and happy! Thank you for enjoying this famous Edith Piaf song!!

Thank you Prasg1186 for enjoying the hard work that I have put into my Handwhistling since 1965!, almost 60 years now. I am 71 when I played and posted this video. Please check out some of my other videos that I know you will enjoy. Wishing you and your Family all the best.

@HandwhistlerBen Wow! You've been at it for 60 & here I am just discovering the wonderful world of whistling and it's niche community here on KZbin.. everybody is so friendly and kind! See I came across your channel via another excellent whistler - ManuTubaWhistler & was especially curious due to your name! I'm glad I clicked as I'm totally fascinated by handwhistling - particularly the movement of the hands which I totally wasn't expecting! I don't know whether it's the vibrations bouncing off your palms or what it is but there is a certain warmth to the Handocarino' (very cool term) that I really admire.. (obviously it being displayed by an expert of 60 years has a big part to play! 😄).. Lastly, I appreciate your response, Ben & will most definitely be checking out your videos & maybe someday even learn the Handocarino (got alot of work to do w/ just whistling 1st 😅).. I wish you & your family well & I look forward to more videos to come! God bless! 🙏

Thank you Peter for enjoying the hard work that went into my breath control!

Bernat- Thank you for watching my first handwhistling videos that I posted onto KZbin with a Camcorder operated by my Son. I may post a few more videos in the future, but, at 71, and having being a guest on many National TV Shows, I still practice every day. Please post two videos of your Handwhistling, playing an eight note scale going up and then down. In the second video, hold each note out for two counts, take a breath and then play the next note. If you do that for me, I will give you advice on how to improve. I started practicing at 12 years old and in 1965 and was practicing over an hour every day, even up to two or more hours. Put in, HandwhistlerBen on Tonight Show 1979. There are two videos to that Show up. Then put in HandwhistlerBen on Evening Magazine 1979, There are over 200 vdeos up. Everything that I do with my Handwhistling control is Professionally done. Post the URL here when you have the videos up, and I will look them over.

@@HandwhistlerBen Hi Ben! It's a honor for me to has an answer from you, honestly! How beautiful it is to know that those videos where recorded by your own son, amazing and charming! Right now I'm out for work, but give a few days and I will definitly do these videos you ask for!! Thank you very very very much for your time and all your hard work!

@@bernatcodern4030 Don't rush doing the two videos. Make it your best quality work. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGKbqWSLa7R1oKc

Manu, I always appreciate your detailed comments! Take care!

Thank you Kimmesha for your kind comments. I taught two years at Overbrook Elementary. One where I came to each classroom, and the other in the Portable in the Yard. Did I teach you music for two years? Were you in my Choir? I wish you and your Family nothing but the very best! Thank you for sharing my videos with others. Mrs. McCladdie was the wonderful Principal!

Yes Kimmesha, I showed this first part of my appearance on the Tonight Show in 1979 and the second part where I perform to all of the students at Overbrook Elementary. I also Handwhistled "O Holy Night" at the two Christmas Shows. Wishing you and your Family nothing bu the very best! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpubp4Rmp8SdpdE

Thank you Manu for enjoying this shortened rendition of the gorgeous and difficult song! Now I have to wait at least a day for your LIKE to show up. Stay well and happy my friend. Don't get Covid. Several of my Friends have it and one is in the Hospital. WEAR MASKS WHEN IN SUPERMARKETS OR OTHER BIG STORES OR MUSIC FESTIVALS!

Lena was a Natural. It is sad that she had demons that she couldn't beat. RIP.

Bernardo, thank you for appreciating the hard work that went into this performance of such a beautiful song. Wishing you all the best. I have several Singing and Handwhistling songs up here that are Covers of Tom Jones and Engelbert Songs that you will enjoy!

Thank you Valerie for stopping and for your lovely comment. You will really enjoy my recent Handwhistling videos. Wishing you all the best!

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Thank you drzwiprawdy for enjoying my almost 60 years of practice that went into my handwhistling here. I am happy that you are trying to figure out how to play different notes as a handwhistler. If you have videos of your practicing your handflute playing up on your Channel, or can put them up there, I will watch, and give you advice on how to improve. Wishing you all the best! kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKW3aqKtoc-ogpY kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpubp4Rmp8SdpdE

Peter- I started practicing my Handwhistling in 1965 and practiced on and off up to three hours a day, also the recorder. I started piano lessons at 7, clarinet at 9, Bassoon at 12. In later years I learned tenor saxophone, and oboe along with starting singing at a young age. I Handwhistled and played all these other instruments while still going to School and doing homework. I also had time to play outside! Here I am at 71, and if you watch my most recent videos, you will see that I am still improving and haven't lost any of my abilities. Wishing you all the best.

Hello Amy. I vaguely remember playing a duet with a young woman. But, I only went there from September 1971 to December 1972 and transferred to Philadelphia Musical Academy which became Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts and then University of the Arts which just closed for good a week ago after being in existence since around 1880. Anyway, I have massive damage in my Lumbar spine, but still put time into my Handwhistling daily. Here is the full rendition of this song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f32kkpyQhKesoaM Please post some of your Handwhistling on your Channel! By the way, I contacted our local Newspapers for a number of my local performances. That is how the Tonight Show found out about me......someone connected to the Show sent it out to them. THEY CONTACTED ME THROUGH MY PARENTS. I called them, and they set up the First Class Airfare, Limo, Two nights in the Sheraton Universal i Burbank and I got paid $448. for my ten minute appearance with David Letterman who was guest host with Doc since Johnnyt Carson was off that night. David did not have his own late night Show for three more years! I put eight minutes in two videos of my Interview and then Part two which was me playine, "What Kind of Fool Am I". I was on lots of TV Shows that are up here including Evening Magazine which made me their Feature through the entire USA. I was very lucky, but worked very hard. My published article in 1978 and other interesting publicity are up on my Ben Brenner (HandwhistlerNBen) Facebook Page. If you "Request me as a Friend, I will accept!. I performed with Peter Schickele for three nights during Christmas of 1975 in Averry Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center performing the Marcello Sonata in E minor with piano accompaniment and I used the fingers on the cheeks of my face to play the Turkish March with accompaniment. I look forward to seeing your Handwhistling up on your Channel. Wishing you all the best!

Hello Peter. I was contacted by the Talent Coordinator from the Tonight Show who wrote a letter to my Parents. I contacted the three Newspapers in Philadelphia for several of my performances and someone sent them out to the Show people. I was living in an Apartment with my older brother. I had already earned my College Degree to Teach Music and was teaching in the Philadelphia School District at the time of this Show. The letter said that they were interested in having me on, and to call them. I played for them over the phone and they said that my First Class Airfare tickets, limo, two nights in the top Hotel in Burbank were all set up with the date of this Show. I was on for ten minutes. I posted eight minutes of it in two videos. Here is my Interview. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKW3aqKtoc-ogpY David Letterman was Guest Hosting with Doc Severinsen for Johnny Carson who was off that day. David would not have his own late night Show for three more years in 1982. I wish you all the best! I look forward to hear your handwhistling and hope that you have some videos up on your Channel!!

Thank you for your comment. I was practicing up to three hours a day since 1965 before I was invited by the Tonight Show by letter to be on this Show. There is an Interview part of the Show also up here. I had a full ten minutes and posted eight of the minutes in the two videos. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKW3aqKtoc-ogpY David Letterman was just the Guest host for Johnny Carson who was off that day. He got his own late night Show three years later. Wishing you all the best!

Thank you Jorge for enjoying this fun time that we had in 2001!

Thank you Peter for enjoying the sixty years that I have put into practicing my Handwhistling. I enjoyed your video of you playing after a break of fifty years. You have nice tone. Please listen to the videos that I did before this one. You will enjoy them and the almost three octave range of notes that I use. I wish you all the best!

Thank you !! 　 Shinichi Igusa (Peter ; PiyoGuma) Takarazuka-city, Hyogo, Japan

Dear Mr. Ben I have introduced Ben's hand ocarina playing on my KZbin page. I myself would like to practice so that I can play simple songs by the fall. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIPad2t7f9hjqM0si=Cvf1kFgqEt_K_erI

Thank you very much Manu for your detailed critique of this video. It is always greatly appreciated! Stay well and happy! Manuj, here is the partial video of this song recorded a day before this one was posted. This other one remains UNLISTED kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5aYoIN6rqiBnZI

Thank you Megan for dropping by. I am so glad that you enjoyed the sixty years of practice that went into this! Wishing you all the best! Here is a partial recording that I did the day before I recorded and posted this one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5aYoIN6rqiBnZI

Thank you Pandora for enjoying my rendition of this beautiful and very difficult song. Thank you very much for your wonderful comment! Wishing you only the best!

Thank you for enjoying this very difficult song Jorge. I threw everything into it! Stay well and happy!

Filomena, thank you for enjoying how hard I worked to play this magnificent and beautiful song!

Thank you for stopping by K-O-D-A and for your comment. Wishing you all the best!

Piers- Thank you for enjoying and for your comment! Stay well and happy!

Thank you Cindy for recognizing the hard work that went into my performance of this gorgeous song. I almost blacked out with two of the very long phrases. I am so glad that you enjoyed it! Cindy, I did this partial video that is Unlisted of this song a day before doing the polished version that I posted. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5aYoIN6rqiBnZI

Thank you Indisugar for stopping by and for enjoying and for commenting on this video! I wish you and your entire Family nothing but the very best!

steev la- There are plenty of my videos that are up that you can see the entire action of my hands. My fingers only pull the palm of my hands closer or farther away to change the pitches. I can play two notes shy of a three octave range of notes. Please post a few videos showing me your advanced Handwhistling skills and I will be more than happy to advise you on how to improve your technique or tone, or put you in touch with one of the hundreds of friends that I know who could assist you the most. I have been practicing my Handwhistling for 60 years. I still practice every day, and at 71, can still play 98 percent of what I did forty years ago. One of my recent videos, I take so much air into the lower part of my lungs by use of my diaphragm muscles and my two lungs in my chest that I play the whole first phrase of 23 seconds on ONE BREATH. My previous record was 20 seconds! So I am still improving. Wishing you all the best!

@@HandwhistlerBen thanks for your lange comment. i've made a video for you. i watched your technic but i didn't knew that this was possible. sounds like you have a whole comunity of handwistlers. i am amazed by 20 seconds for one phrase! kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2GldXuhaseWbLs this is me :)