Aluminum Whistles

[I.D.10-t]

Many double acting baking powders contain sodium aluminum sulfate: NaAl(SO4)2. Check out the stuff in your cabinet, look at the ingredients. Many antiperspirants and antacids may also contain aluminum. You are probably ingesting it from several other sources.

For an interesting read, try this

http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/valentin.htm

There are probably better things to worry about, but if it makes you nervous why bother with it? Play brass, bone or wood.

[straycat82]

I wonder if, in the days of the bone whistle, anyone contracted diseases or illness from the bones of the deceased animal (I hope it wasn't human bone anyways)?