Hospice Quiz " They said what?"

[Red Rose]

Still struggling on this last question

Of the Tuba this wag said " It is an ill wind that nobody blows good "

Any help would be appreciated please Happy New Year to everybody and many thanks for all the help I have received over the last year .

[mr_spencer]

Sir John Barbarolli

[Narolines]

Specifically of the tuba, I can't help you, but this phrase has been used in Jazz circles of the fluegelhorn, clarinet, saxophone (particularly the soprano) and cornet, and probably of any other wind instrument too, for years, and has been claimed by a number of people. It has a Groucho Marxish feel about it, but I fear its true origins are lost in the mists of time.
Doesn't help with your quiz answer, I'm afraid - depends on the sources used by the quiz-setter........

[smouse]

not quite either
notably Sir Thomas Beecham, although I'm unable to authenticate the true source. This calls the notoriously difficult to play French horn - "the wind that nobody blows good".

[Narolines]

Good lord, that gave me a surprise - seeing my own surname against someone else's answer to this question! I wonder if we're related.....?

[mr_spencer]

Your surname's Smouse?

[Red Rose]

Thanks everybody still checking on Sir John Barbirolli and Thomas Beecham