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Post by manfromplanetx on May 23, 2017 5:35:46 GMT
Do you have any Classic films to share that feature a particular musical instrument, which is a prominent element to a classical film story. A couple of film favourites featuring interesting musical instruments.. Sanka, Hymn (1972) from Kaneto Shindô tells the tale of a blind Samisen-teacher, the beautiful film also features a Koto (long zither)
A Samisen is a three-stringed, Traditional Japanese musical instrument played with a plectrum called a bachi. The Koto is also a traditional Japanese 13 stringed musical instrument which is played using three finger picks, on the thumb, index finger, and middle finger, it is the national instrument of Japan. The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) from Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, features a harpsichord. The harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard, a row of levers which the player presses this triggers a mechanism, which plucks one or more strings with a small quill. The harpsicord was most popular in late 18th century, the most celebrated composer who wrote for the harpsichord was J. S. Bach, the instrument gradually disappeared from the musical scene, with the development of the piano. The film stars renowned harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt who plays over 20 of Bach's compositions. Pictured Shunkin, (Tokuko Watanabe) Samisen-teacher, Sanka (1972)
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 23, 2017 6:15:36 GMT
Mitchell Leisen's excellent Swing High, Swing Low (1937) is a bittersweet romance starring Fred MacMurray and Carole Lombard. MacMurray plays Skid Johnson who is an ex-soldier who can toot a mean horn... Trumpet . From a Panama honky-tonk joint to a classy up-market club in New York, Skid is in hot demand. MacMurray was an accomplished musician who sang and played the saxophone before his acting career.
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Post by OldAussie on May 23, 2017 7:15:11 GMT
Cymbals - The Man Who Knew Too Much Trumpet - From Here to Eternity Harmonica - Once Upon a Time in the West Violin - any Sherlock Holmes film Piano - Casablanca
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Post by bonerxmas on May 23, 2017 7:44:25 GMT
chico plays piano, harpo smashes it and turns it into a harp
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 23, 2017 9:01:18 GMT
Cymbals - The Man Who Knew Too Much Trumpet - From Here to Eternity Harmonica - Once Upon a Time in the West Violin - any Sherlock Holmes film Piano - Casablanca Great call on the Cymbals OldAussie ! from the 1956 film
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 23, 2017 9:11:22 GMT
Ukulele - Some Like it Hot Harmonica - Houseboat Great memory the Ukulele thanks juliekohler !
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 23, 2017 9:35:19 GMT
The saung-gauk, Burmese harp features in the 1956 film from Kon Ichikawa, The Burmese HarpUsed in traditional Burmese music the arched harp is regarded as a national musical instrument of Burma (Myanmar) The main character in the film was a Japanese soldier who becomes a Buddhist monk due to the horrors of war. He plays the saung. Unfortunately however, the original sound of the saung is removed from the soundtrack and replaced with an overdub of a Western classical pedal harp.
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Post by bravomailer on May 23, 2017 12:38:30 GMT
Not sure we see a zither in The Third Man but its practically a supporting actor. (Update: a zither is seen as it plays in the opening titles sequence.) Johnny Guitar! Some say it's good, some say it's so bad it's good, some say it's just god-awful. I think it's the worst movie ever made that, owing to its respected director and actors, can lay claim to being a significant movie.
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Post by london777 on May 23, 2017 13:38:34 GMT
The Red Violin (1998) François Girard. Maybe not a classic, but a pretty good movie.
A flute features in a few scenes in Ran (1985) Akira Kurosawa and affects the plot.
A Late Quartet (2012) Yaron Zilberman
The Pianist (2002) Roman Polanski
All These Women (1964) Ingmar Bergman. About a famous cellist living with seven "wives" so that instrument features prominently. "The rudiments of cello playing - to open your legs!" Bergman's first film in color and probably his worst overall. A cumbrous attempt at French farce.
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Post by mikef6 on May 23, 2017 13:59:09 GMT
Gary Cooper playing the tuba in a small-town band in Vermont when he is summoned to the Big City. I saw this movie at a film society in Vermont where this scene got a big laugh.
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Post by mattgarth on May 23, 2017 14:44:28 GMT
Dueling banjos (actually one is a guitar) in DELIVERANCE
Jack Webb's cornet in PETE KELLY'S BLUES
The 76 trombones in THE MUSIC MAN
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Post by marshamae on May 23, 2017 15:52:04 GMT
Violin - Young Frankenstein Piano - Young at Heart, Four Daughters Cornet - Five Pennies Violin- humoresque Piano - American in Paris
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Post by bravomailer on May 23, 2017 17:11:43 GMT
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Post by teleadm on May 23, 2017 18:17:10 GMT
The Glenn Miller Story 1954 - Trombone The Benny Goodman Story 1956 - Clarinet The Gene Krupa Story 1959 - Drums
Dangerous Moonlight 1941 - Piano including Warsaw Concerto Golden Boy 1939 - Violin (Should he be a violonist or a boxer- William Holden) Intermezzo 1936 and 1939 - Violin (Gösta Ekman 1936, Leslie Howard 1939) Humoresque 1946 - Violin (John Garfield)
Song Without End 1960 - Piano (Dirk Bogarde as Lizst) A Song to Remember 1945 - Piano (Cornel Wilde as Chopin) The Magic Bow 1946 - Violin (Stewart Granger as Paganini) The Eddy Duchin Story 1956 - Piano (Tyrone Power)
Robert Walker played piano at least twice, Till the Clouds Roll By 1946 as Jerome Kern. and Song of Love 1947 as Johannes Brahms, in the same movie Paul Henried was Robert Schumann and Henry Daniell was Lizst.
A Man Called Adam 1966 - Trumpet (Sammy Davis Jr, and as another trumpeter named Willie Ferguson, was played by someone you might have heard of named Louis Armstrong).
Birth of the Blues 1941 - Early jazz instruments, very loosely based on the story of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, with Jack Teagarden playing a, guess what, a trombonist.
'Round Midnight 1986 - Tenor saxphophone (Dexter Gordon).
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Post by london777 on May 23, 2017 18:33:41 GMT
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Alexander Mackendrick Steve Dallas (Martin Milner) plays the guitar with the Chico Hamilton Quintet.
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Post by neurosturgeon on May 23, 2017 18:51:36 GMT
As a bass player myself, I thought of Jack Lemmon with bass viol with the four gunshot holes in it in SomeLike It Hot.
One of my favorite scenes is the two Getshwin brothers watching the piano being delivered through the window inRhapsody in Blue.
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Post by koskiewicz on May 23, 2017 18:54:02 GMT
...the Zither from "The Third Man"
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Post by gadolinium on May 23, 2017 20:23:58 GMT
Piano in Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player (1960).
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 23, 2017 22:07:39 GMT
An essential ingredient for any gypsy movie the Piano Accordion Perhan plays one throughout the excellent film Dom za vesanje , Time of the Gypsies (1988)
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Post by gunshotwound on May 23, 2017 23:50:37 GMT
The Man with the Golden Arm - drums The Mephisto Waltz - piano The Mission - oboe The Day the Earth Stood Still - theremin Spellbound - theremin
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