A Mighty Wind - whistle and bodhràn sighting!

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@AaronMalcomb

Has anybody seen the mockumentary A Mighty Wind? I recommend it if you haven’t. It does for '50s and '60s folk music what This is Spinal Tap did for Heavy Metal.

Anyways there are a couple whistle sightings and a bodhran sighting. The first whistle sighting appears to be a brass Generation G or F whistle. It is never played but is just held by one of the New Main Street Singers. Then in one of the additional scenes Christopher Guest plays a green-fipple-brass-body whistle and in another Eugene Levy taps on a bodhràn while singing a gory ballad. Christopher Guest kind of knows what he’s doing on the whistle. He even vented the second octave D.

Whistles or not, this is a funny movie.

Cheers,

Aaron

I just rented Mighty Wind, I thought it was ok, but really the “special features” were better than the movie IMO.