Packet 9: Tossup 6

This [emphasize] non-stringed instrument plays the theme of the French gangster film Touchez pas au grisbi (“TOO-shay pah oh GRIZ-bee”). Alfred Schnittke scored a surreal animated film titled for this instrument that was banned in the USSR. In Lucky, Harry Dean Stanton plays “Red River Valley” on this instrument, which plays (15[1])the first diegetic sound in Jaws. Frank Capra’s You Can’t Take It with You ends with a duet (15[1])of “Polly (15[1])Wolly Doodle” (15[1])on this instrument. (15[1])The end credits of (-5[1])The Jerk play as Steve Martin dances to Brownie McGee’s guitar (-5[1])and (*) Sonny (10[1])Terry playing this instrument. (10[2])A Belgian virtuoso of this instrument played the melody of John Barry’s theme for Midnight Cowboy. This instrument interrupts Thomas Newman’s orchestral score for a 1994 film at the moment when a newly-released (-5[1])prisoner finds a stone wall leading to a white oak in Buxton, Maine. For 10 points, name this instrument played by Toots Thielemans and Red in The Shawshank Redemption. (-5[1])■END■ (10[6]0[1])

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