Very funny and slightly better than Celine Dion's version.

...whilst listening to Magnetic Fields' Busby Berkley Dreams just now and came here rather than start a new thread. It's a great song that nearly does the trick of making acceptable the hoarse shrillness of the devil's whistle. I know a few be-cardied types have tried but has anyone ever got a genuinely decent tune out of one?

(I played it at school for years - or one one memorably unrehearsed occasion, mimed it. Badly - both playing and miming, don't mock musicians who mime until you've tried it... It was clearly invented by someone who hated parents. And teachers. And children. And humanity in general I suspect.)

Having become quite the squeaky afficionado on Beelzebub's pipes back in the day, trying my hand - and my family's eardrums - with hours of practising on the descant, treble, tenor, sopranino, and even bassoon-like bass recorder.
As a small Drakelet, this much-maligned instrument was my one and only entry into the world of being in a band: the Sandpipers. An avant garde, kick-ass live outfit that lived to tour and toured to live. Or rather played carol concerts in the High Street in front of mildly frosted parents who stamped their feet to keep warm.
I even became part of a supergroup, providing guest recorder backing for the Bluebird Singers (and once flirting with multi-instrumentalist status by playing the chimes with them on Little Donkey).
Ah, those heady days.

1971 Adelaide prog rock band Fraternity