Mitch Hider’s 10 wishes for whistling

I got a letter from Mitch Hider (pictured) in which he said some very nice things about my whistling. Mitch was the MC for the whistling comp and said that he only remembers 5 others with the same style as me (that is the tongue whistling, rather than the ‘pucker’ style).

Mitch sent me some good stuff, and its nice to get a letter these days. One of the things that Mitch sent was ‘Mitch Hider’s 10 Wishes for Whistling”… which is below, with my comments afterwards in brackets (or ‘parentheses’ for you Americans)

1. A puckered planet, a whistling world (not sure how this wish would come true, but I like the alliteration!) 
2. Community whistling gatherings, choruses and marching bands (hang on thats three wishes in one! next you will be asking for a Kinder Surprise)
3. A biennial World Congress of Whistling, sponsored by ‘The International Institute for the Study and Development of Whistling as Music, Language and Sound’ (not sure if this institute exists – if not, I think that it should be set up!)
4. Whistlers-in-residence, whistling ambassadors, whistler laureates (I like this, and would hereby like to put myself forward as a h laureate)
5. Whistling taught in schools (the good thing about this is that kids can practice wherever they are, so it would help in their musical development, as opposed to an instrument that they reluctantly practice for an hour before they are allowed to go out and play)
6. Whistling section with every symphony orchestra (cool)
7. More new recordings by whistlers and reissues of the whistling classics (I agree, and I think that this will come when whistling’s profile is increased).
8. New musicals and operas featuring whistling (someone needs to write one!)
9. A live whistler doing Sweet Georgia Brown at every Harlem Globetrotters game (why only the Harlem globetrotters (is it because they are monkeyfez?))
10. National Whistling Day. Schools and businesses remain open (So help me if I can make only one of these 10 things happen it will be this one! – who do you write to to get these days allocated?! Obama? – well that is a good start).