Olin Lathrop wrote:
> I
> wouldn't want the sound to be a simple beep.  You could probably synthesize
> a cricket-like sound in a software loop.

I can offer some old code for a very convincing cricket sound, modeled 
on a Scientific American article from the 70s.

(Used in a similar vein on PCs in a school computer lab.)
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