Son of Whistle Britches

The piezo-electric phonograph needle and subsequent amplification, by sonic or electrical means, is essentially a thing of the past. But it is a fairly simple and robust system, not much changed since Edison developed it.

Why not sew linear audio tracks into the sleeves of jackets, for example. On your left sleeve would be James Brown singing, "I Feel Good", just that phrase, might be all that would fit. You would play the phrase by straightening your left arm while holding the cuff in your hand, then sliding a simple piezo-electric needle/plastic speaker device embedded in your right cuff, along the length of the track in your left sleeve. Out comes a somewhat tinny, warbled but audible, "I Feel Good!", excerpt from the James Brown song. He would get a cut of the jacket price, of course.

What a great thing for juveniles to have, to wear to school and be obnoxious with. Any number of song sampling you could sew into these tracks. Maybe several tracks on a sleeve. Scale it up a little and you could include a small battery-powered amplifier/needle unit, hand-held or again, sewed into the other cuff. Give away free jackets with tracks that promote a product: "Coke is it!", or, "Add Bardahl", or, "Got Milk?".

Corduroy pants are also known as 'whistle britches'. Kind of the same idea.