I wrote about this once before and recently did some research. This "call of the scrap buyer", as I call it, is an iconic sound in DF and, from what this article says, is heard far and wide now. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/world/what-in-the-world/whos-that-voice-asking-for-scrap-metal-in-mexico-a-10-year-old-girl.html She and her family have attempted to copyright the recording.
This is the camote (sweet patato/yam) vendor. He rolls this wood fired oven around where the camotes are baked and uses the pressure from the boiler to create this piercing whistle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkgReb_LSkY
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