What is this dryer noise?

[stricklybojack]

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Sounds like a distant siren..
What would cause it?
It’s a gas dryer.[this post was last edited: 10/26/2019-19:30]

 

[combo52]

The link won't open,but if it is a WP dryer from the late 80s into the early 90s it might be the lint filter alert whistle.

John L.

 

[askolover]

The blower itself in my Frigidaire sounds like that.  I can hear it when I pull in the driveway and get out of my car when Tony is drying laundry.

 

[frigilux]

My Frigidaire dryers also made that sound if the vent collar came disconnected from the back of the dryer.

 

[stricklybojack]

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I think ComboJohn (thx!) is right, a whistle. I passed the information on to clean the lint filter and that sorted out the problem.

 

[70series]

That had to be it. Our 1986 Whirlpool Imperial Seventy dryer had the same whistle when the lint filter was full. It was a source of amusement at first. "Isn't this dryer funny? It toots." was said several times during the first week after we got it.