Need a source to purchase a "train whistle" teapot; NOT one with
"harmonica" reeds --I've heard those and they don't make the same,
HUGE sound that this one does. I beleive the one I am looking has a
fipple-type whistle like a pipe organ, recorder, or Irish Tin whistle.
It sounded like it had more-than-one note sounding, and it sounded
like an old steam whistle on a train or riverboat. I seen (and heard)
one that someone bought in Japan.  She didn't recall where she bought
it.  She bought it about 10 yrs ago.

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Clarification of Question by pcjohn-ga on 09 Dec 2005 12:02 PST

To be more precise, I should say "tea kettle" not "tea pot" --I
talking about the one that goes on the flame to boil the water, not
the one you steep tea in.

And the actual whistle part, would technically be called a "chime"
because the whistle generates a chord or combination on notes as the
steam rushes past resonating chambers.  Here's a pic of a three
chambered, three-chime steam whistle:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/5612/whistle6chime.jpg

And the actual physical configuration of how the steam rushes past the
opening of the resonating chamber may not techncally be a "fipple"... 
In steam whistle terminology, there's the "languid plate" and "steam
slot" and a resonating chamber that creates the sonic standing waves
that we hear as the "whistling".

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Clarification of Question by pcjohn-ga on 09 Dec 2005 12:20 PST

This is NOT what I am looking for.  This Chantal kettle has Hohner
Harmonica reeds to make the sound:

http://www.wonderfulbuy.com/images/red_whistling.jpg

Hi,
Here is a wooden 3 tone "train whistle".  I used to have one; sounds good.
It should be easy to find a way to fit it on your kettle.  I don't
know how it would respond to hot steam  - buy a couple of them.

http://www.physlink.com/estore/cart/TrainWhistle.cfm

I found it on a couple of other sites, but they were more expensive.

Cheers, Myoarin