duck calls?????

[bassmstr]

Well I posted these on a couple of other forums for calls and call making and had absolutely no help so I figured you guys seem to be pretty good at finding what things are I will throw this out here.
I purchased these in upstate N.H. they were kin the bottom of a box of old carved decoys. They are brass and reed and I believe they are wrapped in gut. I showed them to a friend who is a collector of duck calls and he did not want to buy them. He told me he thinks I have something special here. Possibly native american? Eaither way he said they are early and he has never seen anything like them in books.
They do sound like duck calls and are color coded as to different sounds. Just wondering what you guys think.

 

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[Blacksheep]

Years ago when i still hunted, i would use the store bought calls, they were read type call`s, looking
at what you have posted it would be hard to imagine getting the correct vibration set up even if these were held in cupped hands or in the mouth.

Are these hollow or have a separate thin "blade"? At first glance they appear to be some type of tool for "pushing" something into a gap. Fly rod building tool maybe?

Still searching, looked at over 200 pics of different calls from fox to elk to rabbit to geese, found nothing similar
so far.

Could you take a side by side pic with a ruler or coin?

EDIT: Is the thin/tapered ends of these "split", its hard to see from the pics.

 

[Montana Jim]

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[Blacksheep]

Found this,
http://www.manufactum.co.uk/Produkt/174525/1400764/Duckandgoosecall.html

 

[Tom VT]

I would say yes. Primitive, but no idea how old.

 

[d2]

The piece of cane in one picture brings to mind calls made by Cajuns in Louisiana. The calls sound a lot higher in tone than the ones I use here in Arkansas. They look like some type of duck call tone board but I dont know if they are older than the 1800's to the early 1900's. When you find out please let us know...d2

 

[trikikiwi]

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[PBK]

Never saw a duck call with a reed like that. Reminds me more of an English horn (baritone oboe) reed...

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[Montana Jim]

Hey Hey Hey!
PBK!
You found that reed
And that's OKAY!

 

[Centralvic]

Possibly, reeds from the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument, have also seen them in the chanters from a set of bagpipes.

 

[greengorilla]

Looks like handmade Bassoon reeds to me. I'm just an old Band Jock.

 

[diggin jimmy hoffa]

Possibly, reeds from the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument, have also seen them in the chanters from a set of bagpipes.

I agree, Bagpipe Chanter Reeds
The different colored wraps would indicate what drone (pipes) they would go in.

 

[dex378]

I think they are called long staple or chanter reeds, and are for bagpipes.

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...reeds&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&sa=N

 

[bradyboy]

if they are bag pipe reeds, why the case?
do you pull out the reeds when your done blowing?
if so, whats the reason?
cleaning / humidity protection?
i find this very interesting