Train Whistle

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I want to make some noise makers and there are a few designs online but it's really hard to decide how loud they are actually going to be. Have laser, will cut, so I made up a few for testing. The first one is this train whistle, modified to actually be glued together, it's a good sturdy whistle as you would expect but not quite loud enough for me. 



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