I was watching an old movie - one of Clint Eastwood’s - A few Dollars More - and realised they were using a whistle of some kind to carry the melody in the theme and background/incidental music.
Never noticed this until I started playing whistles, but it’s a familiar sound…
Dang,
From the thread title, I had visions of a Steve McQueen type running down a bail jumper by throwing a low whistle at his feet to trip him up and then battering him into submission with its twin from his other holster.
Or Bobba Fett going after Han Solo, playing his Humphrey whistle late at night to soothe his loneliness (his, not Han Solo’s).
A number of Ennio Morricone compositions seem to be written with whistle-friendliness in mind, except that they tend to modulate up a half-step in the last verse. To play along with such tunes, it helps to have both a D and Eb whistle handy. For a Few Dollars More is a blast to play on the whistle, and on the record it sounds like it contains both a standard six-hole whistle and a “human” whistle.
Yes, and in one tune during the movie, I heard some reed instrument, plus either a low key whistle, or flute.