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Whistle workers practice in advance of Christmas concert in 2004. From left, Don Ryan, Nathan Keeney, Scott Ryan work the controls.
So much attention is given to New York Wire Cloth's Christmas-Carol-playing steam whistle that the company's immense contributions during World War II are all-but-forgotten.
Indeed, there's a current drama going on about whether the York plant's whistle, billed as producing the world's loudest music without amplification from a non-musical instrument, will blast this holiday season... .
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