wind tube from a pool supply store IV. Wind Tubes:

These are not so much instruments you make but instruments you find.  I use them for making a cool, high keening sound of magic or wind or ghosts or whatever. 

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All you have to do is go to your local pool supply store and ask for vacuum hose.  Now be careful! Some of it is pretty expensive ($5.00-10.00 per length) but some of it is cheap (.50 cents!). There's black hose and silver hose, blue hose and brown hose. I have found the blue hose to be the cheapest but you can't always find it. I've tried vacuum cleaner hose without any luck. You might want to try your just in case it has talent. Mine might have just been  a dud.

How To Play It:  Just whirl it around your head! Always be careful to play this instrument away from walls, chandeliers, and other people okay?!?!?!?!

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