in light of imminent events...

[tictactux]

...the Vuvuzela.
It's a brasswind made of plastic. But it seems to be more than just a f*cking loud tootle:

http://www.southafrica.info/2010/vuvuzela.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XabaQBX3eUM

[pete]

Well. At least I have a new word for Scrabble :).

[Old Dick]

There just has to be an indoor, but not necessarily smaller or quieter, version available for hockey games! –– Go 'Hawks!!

[Gandalfe]

Gets me to thinking about creating my own instrument of some sort. I thought I'd done it once with a hinged set of 2X4X8 inches wood. But nooooo.... 8-)

[SOTSDO]

I've taken my baritone to the occasional playoff game when my son was playing high school, junior and travel league hockey. Throwing aside the blanket and landing on a solid low A, tugboat-like blast cut through all of the clack bottles (plastic aquarium jewels inside of empty Poweraide bottles - very loud when shaken correctly) and air horns.

It is cumbersome, though...

[Old Dick]

I honestly can't imagine getting a horn into a game! Even us sedate, professorial looking types get patted down – e.g., at our St. Cloud State vs Minnesota games to make sure we aren't carrying dead gophers to toss on the ice whenever we score. [And what kind of a mascot is a stupid gopher, golden or otherwise, anyhow???] – I couldn't smuggle in a baritone even if it had its own ticket...

[pete]

"I'm with the band" is a phrase that generally works :).