Waking Ned Devine

sandman · Post by **sandman** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:35 pm

So in honour of last night's arrival of my Howard low D, I stuck on a DVD of the film "Waking Ned Devine" so I could jam along with the soundtrack. So for anyone who's seen this, there's a scene with a funeral cortege led by a lone whistler who's playing a beautiful-looking little whistle. Does anyone know what kind of whistle it is?

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:40 pm

Probably Generation.

sandman · Post by **sandman** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 11:27 pm

glauber wrote:Probably Generation.

No, it was something fancier. Looked like it was either wood or plastic -- dark coloured -- and jointed.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 8:25 am

I saw the movie, and i remember the whistle playing, but at the time i thought it was a Clarke. Like you say, something black. I didn't get a good look at it. Maybe a Susato?

Maybe someone here has the DVD and could check it out?

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 1:48 pm

I don't know what kind of whistle it was, but maybe you could email the guy who played it in the movie: Ray MacCormac.

From http://www.sliotarmusic.com/individual.html:

He also had a role in the movie Waking Ned as a whistle and bodhran player.

If you go to the Contacts page of the Sliotar web site, there's an email address for Ray.

Cheers,
John

Kelhorn Mike · Post by **Kelhorn Mike** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 1:56 pm

The Movie has been out at least 4 years now and it is old news on this board.
For the all newbies, the whistle in Waking Ned Devine is yes, definitely a
"SUSATO" end of story! Forgive me for the self promotion.......

Kelhorn Mike

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 1:59 pm

glauber wrote:I saw the movie, and i remember the whistle playing, but at the time i thought it was a Clarke. Like you say, something black. I didn't get a good look at it. Maybe a Susato?

It seemed to fit the description.

sandman · Post by **sandman** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:09 pm

Kelhorn Mike wrote:The Movie has been out at least 4 years now and it is old news on this board.
For the all newbies, the whistle in Waking Ned Devine is yes, definitely a
"SUSATO" end of story! Forgive me for the self promotion.......

Kelhorn Mike

Me thanks to you!

PhilO · Post by **PhilO** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:30 pm

I just saw the very end of this great little movie this afternoon; I thought the credits referred to "McSherry" as the pipe and whistle player?

Philo

SirNick · Post by **SirNick** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:33 pm

That's not a Susato!! It's a Spillane plastic prototype. Geez.. where do you guys get your crazy information!

Brian Lee · Post by **Brian Lee** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 12:29 am

John McSherry is the piper and whistle player on the soundtrack, though it isn't him in the movie itself (on screen) according to popular opinion. For those of you who don't know much about John, he was also the founding piper in Lúnasa and has several solo albums out that are VERY worth grabbing!

http://www.johnmcsherry.com/

God bless him, he's also someone with some of the most unfortunate hair of anyone I know in Itrad! Next to Paddy Moloney's old chops from back in the 70's that is