Abstract: A noise maker includes a face piece, a blow tube, and noise making tongue. The face piece may be a small planar representation of a face or of a portion of a face if a clown, monster, cartoon character, or the like, and may be made from cardboard or plastic. The blow tube extends inwardly from the face piece and the tongue extends outwardly from the face piece. The blow tube includes a tube passageway running the length of the blow tube, and the tongue includes a tongue passage running the length of the tongue. Blowing into the blow tube results in producing a raspberry noise at an opening end of the tongue. A lanyard may be attached to the face for carrying.

Abstract: A unique three sound chamber game call is presented, which creates a wide variety of game calls and sounds utilized in detecting the location of game. The game call has a first sound chamber or mouthpiece barrel in which a vibrating reed is located. The cylindrical portion of the reed carrier may connect the first mouthpiece barrel sound chamber to a second middle baffle sound chamber. The aperture of the second middle sound chamber reduces the exit area of the air blown over the reed and thus changes the pitch of the call. A trombone-like third baffle or sound chamber is placed over the end of the second sound chamber. The third sound chamber can be taken off completely, increasing the volume of the call or may slide up and down the outer end of the second sound chamber varying the tone, pitch and volume of the call.

Abstract: A wind instrument that can be used to replicate the calls of birds and animals particularly including the common loon. An instrument having the type of mouthpiece used on a recorder and an elongate body having a bore has an baffle within the bore that closes only a portion of the bore. With the baffle at at least one location in the bore, significant changes can be made in the pitch of the sound being made to replicate calls without movement of the baffle along the bore. The baffle can be fixed and the instrument used to replicate the wail of the common loon, or can be movable so that all of the primary calls of the common loon can be replicated.

Abstract: An alerting mechanism integrated with a hand-held whistle utilizing a structural member having a first and a second surface. The structural member is secured to the whistle or a cavity found in the whistle structure, to permit the structural member to rotate and be held between a first and a second position. The first position exposes the first surface of the structural member while the second position exposes the second surface of the structural member. Coloration or other marking may be employed on the first surface to visually distinguish the first surface from the second surface.

Abstract: A mouth blown sports whistle includes a mouthpiece that communicates with a sound chamber and emits an audio signal when pressurized air is blown into the mouthpiece and a second chamber that communicates via a passageway with the sound chamber. A visual member is housed in the second chamber in a retracted position so as to be capable of extending through an opening therein to an extended position when pressurized air enters the second chamber from said sound chamber to thereby render a visual signal of the blowing of the whistle. The whistle may further include a check valve associated with the second chamber to temporally hold the visual member in its extended position after the extension thereof and also a release valve associated with the second chamber to permit the visual member to return to its retracted position to ready the whistle for another combined audio and visual signalling.

Abstract: The invention provides a new whistle, intended for sports referees, and for small boat emergency use, where a loud piercing sound is required without the possibility of loss of sound by "over-blowing" or by sticking of the freely-moving ball used in conventional whistles. The profile of the new whistle preferably is of flat-topped "mandolin" shape in side elevation, so that it is familiar and readily acceptable by established users, and yet includes three separate fipple-type whistle elements in a single whistle body, each with its own air column chamber and vibration-producing knife edge, at least two of which chambers are of slightly different lengths, so as to produce complex harmonics and beats that increase the piercing quality and audibility of the sound. This is done by providing two elements side-by-side and parallel to one another, with the third also parallel and below (or above in an inverted shape) the other two protruding into the space between them.

Abstract: An animal calling device which has a reed member stretched between two generally rectangular members which are bowed at each end in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal axis and positioned with the concave sides opposing one another to form a double-tapered cavity. The two rectangular members are constructed of resilient material and are hinged together along corresponding longitudinal edges thereof. A pair of notches are positioned at each end of one of the members and an endless rubber band is positioned across the outer back side of the member with notches and through the notches thereby forming two reed elements, one at each end of the device. The reed elements are positioned at the entrance into the cavity between the two members at each end thereof.