Can anyone tell me what key and make this whistle is in? I’m really impressed with the sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uLDuiAzajU&mode=related&search=
Thanks.
Well, the title of the clip and the comments say Abell D.
So, that’s probably it. He’s really making it sound flutey. Neat.
http://www.abellflute.com/whistle.html
Pricey, but generally highly regarded.
The gentleman in that clip is quite the flautist.
You should Check out the rest of his stuff, if
you already haven’t. Here’s a clip of him playing
a duet with himself (he even edits the video to
include Picture-in-Picture).
I’d say more recorder-y perhaps, with a sopranino sort of timbre. But yes, a nicely done application of the whistle to art music, and pleasant to the ear.
A very interesting clip.
What the gentleman is doing is applying relatively recent style of whistling to a great old tune. You could call this style “soundtrack” because it never really existed in relation to whistles until movie producers picked-up Celtic and other tribal/historical themes and distilled their own presentation of the “essence” of those musics, feels and atmospheres for mass media consumption - the result is entirely artificial, with little or no real connection to the subject material.
LOTR is an excellent example - the culture is entirely fictional, and yet, the producers and composers have built a whole ethos around it - it is now a recognisable style - albeit stranded in meta-space with no real cultural continuity beyond the incestuous thread of media producers building upon each other’s fictional culture.
Is it Celtic? No.
Does it have any true cultural relevance? Perhaps. That would be up to us, whether we pick-up these tunes and styles and re-integrate them into our true cultures. However - such a task might be difficult as the tunes are massively copyright-protected components of commercial merchandising leviathans. What the man in the clip has done is one way forward - by applying the style to a public-domain tune, he has wrested some value from the bean counters.
It’s a good thing that you can’t copyright style 
it’s definitely an Abell. I recognize it clearly.
Sounds like it has some processing added, though, like reverb. Sure does sound nice, though.