I was watching one of the old classic movies " Few Dollers More " starring Clint Eastwood. This movie has a fantastic flute tune ( Theme music ) throughout the movie.
Does any one got the notes for the same or would care to inform me the source.
I suppose you are referring to the "spaghetti film" of the 60's "For a few dollars more" (or a "Fistful of dollars closer to the original Italian name.
The music was by Ennio Morricone (an easy guess). Check if this is the theme you liked:
I can't be certain, but the "whistling" sounds more like a pan flute (sometimes called pan pipes) to me.
Compare this to the sound from "A Fistful Of Dollars". It's from the movie "Kill Bill" and is a piece named "The Lonely Shepherd" played by Romanian Gheorghe Zamfir who is arguably the world's foremost virtuoso of the pan flute.
Sorry to disagree. I perceive the pan flute clearly as a rather different instrument, with a different glissando, its extreme agility and a peculiar more hollow sound. Now, this is Zamfir, he does not sound in the pan flute as a normal player would sound.
Anyway, at the time of that movie (about 1964), many cowboys films used professional whistlers, it was quite popular at that time. Not a proof, however.
Vinod could know about this Indian whistler: Venkatesh Guntur, who is said to have a rare talent of whistling Indian classical and Indian movie songs. (but probably not for Morricone films)
Hi guys,
It is my take that the whistling is actual whsitling.
There is a higher recorder (sop)or tin whistle playing in the background as well.
"A Fistful Of Dollars"(1964)isn't the same movie as the sequil: "For a few dollars more"(1965). but it's the same music composers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLXQltR7vUQ&feature=related
Apparently the third movie in this "The Man With No Name Trilogy." is the movie called, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" but it's viewed as a prequil to the first two.
From Wiki: "The score is composed by frequent Leone collaborator Ennio Morricone, whose distinctive original compositions, containing gunfire, whistling (by John O'Neill), and yodeling permeate the film." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXldafIl5DQ
A friend once descibed the sound of panpipes as "misty". I love that description.
I think in this music pan pipes would be a little more misty. But it seems so very perfect for whistling. But I suppose that is possible.
"The Lonely Shepherd" played by Romanian Gheorghe Zamfir who is arguably the world's foremost virtuoso of the pan flute.
I disagree. I have a range of incredible panpipe recordings by Simion Stanciu, much of it quite difficult concert flute repertoir played blemish-free, and that is so difficult on panpipes, where there are no 'sharps'; you play "flats" by blowing more into a pipe. I think he is professor of panpipe playing in a Roumanian university. To me, his playing makes Zamfir sound quite amateurish.
Simion Stanciu ... To me, his playing makes Zamfir sound quite amateurish.
I have to admit that Stanciu is quite impressive. I had not heard of him before. Stanciu and Zamfir play different styles - Stanciu in the classical style and Zamfir more in the folk and pop styles. However, I think it unfair to call Zamfir's playing amateurish. IMO, I would say that both are excellent musicians, in their own genres.
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