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Mark Huber

June 22, 2016 07:10PM

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Unfortunately not. It's the vibration of the whistle that causes the sound, and even if you could get duct tape to seal the hole and not blow out of the whistle on the first pull, the vibrational characteristics of the whistle have changed. Gives her character.

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